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[ lej-is-leyt ] / ˈlɛdʒ ɪsˌleɪt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR legislate ON THESAURUS.COM
verb (used without object), leg·is·lat·ed, leg·is·lat·ing.to exercise the function of legislation; make or enact laws. verb (used with object), leg·is·lat·ed, leg·is·lat·ing.to create, provide, or control by legislation: attempts to legislate morality. Origin of legislateFirst recorded in 1710–20; back formation from legislation, legislator OTHER WORDS FROM legislateo·ver·leg·is·late, verb, o·ver·leg·is·lat·ed, o·ver·leg·is·lat·ing.qua·si-leg·is·lat·ed, adjectiveun·leg·is·lat·ed, adjectiveWords nearby legislatelegionnaires' disease, Legion of Honor, Legion of Honour, Legion of Merit, legis., legislate, legislation, legislative, Legislative Assembly, legislative branch, legislative council Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for legislateAnd it might not only be in Britain that politicians rush to legislate. ISIS Has a Message. Do We?|Jamie Dettmer|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST No politician has the right to legislate for the awful things that can happen during pregnancy. Tennessee Voters Face a Loaded Abortion Question|Eleanor Clift|October 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST Are we in danger, in the rush to legislate, of ruining the moment? Does California’s College Rape Bill Go Too Far In Regulating Sex?|Emma Woolf|June 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST These are excuses offered up by a party that is too divided to govern and legislate. In Passover Phone Conversation, Eric Cantor Slams Obama|Eleanor Clift|April 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Now that all efforts to legislate gun control are stalled, it may be time for mental-health legislation to stand on its own. The House’s GOP Psychologist May Finally Get a Mental-Health Bill Passed|Eleanor Clift|April 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST They are discovering that they have been fighting a bugbear; also, that their legislation against the bugbear cannot legislate. The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890|Various There was a persistent tendency to legislate upon details, a tendency which could not be entirely kept down. Robert Toombs|Pleasant A. Stovall Accordingly, these ecclesiastical votaries of democracy cut a strange figure when they seek to legislate for the Church. Outspoken Essays|William Ralph Inge The Constitution gives no power to Congress to legislate on the subject, but imposes on the States the obligation of rendition. William Jay and the Constitutional Movement for the Abolition of Slavery|Bayard Tuckerman There is no reproach in the fact that we neither build, legislate, think, nor determine for the next generation. Quodlibet|John P. Kennedy
British Dictionary definitions for legislate
verb(intr) to make or pass laws (tr) to bring into effect by legislation Word Origin for legislateC18: back formation from legislator Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to legislateenact, constitute, pass |