About The Word Legislate
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Legislate
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What's The Definition Of Legislate?
[v] make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation; "They passed the amendment"; "We cannot legislate how people's spend their free time"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Legislate: pass Related Terms | Find terms related to Legislate: authorize | constitute | declare lawful | decree | enact | enact laws | establish | filibuster | formulate | get the floor | have the floor | kill | legalize | legitimate | legitimatize | legitimize | lobby through | logroll | make a regulation | make legal | ordain | pass | pigeonhole | pocket | prescribe | put in force | put through | railroad through | regulate | roll logs | sanction | table | take the floor | validate | veto | yield the floor Legislate In Webster's Dictionary \Leg"is*late\ (l[e^]j"[i^]s*l[=a]t), v. i. [imp. & p.
p. {Legislated} (-l[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Legislating} (-l[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [See {Legislator}.]
To make or enact a law or laws.
Solon, in legislating for the Athenians, had an idea of
a more perfect constitution than he gave them. --Bp.
Watson (1805).
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