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Verb
/ˈlejəˌslāt/,
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legislated, past tense; legislated, past participle; legislating, present participle; legislates, 3rd person singular present;
  1. Make or enact laws
    • - he didn't want to name anyone to the Court who would legislate from the bench
  2. Cover, affect, or create by making or enacting laws
    • - Congress must legislate strong new laws
  1. make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation; "They passed the amendment"; "We cannot legislate how people spend their free time"
  2. (legislating) legislation: the act of making or enacting laws
  3. Legislation (or "statutory law") is law which has been promulgated (or "enacted") by a legislature or other governing body, or the process of making it. (Another source of law is judge-made law or case law. ...
  4. To pass laws (including the amending or repeal of existing laws)
  5. To create and revise written laws governing things, people and places; a right of the provincial and federal governments to propose, enact and enforce laws derived from the Constitution. See "Act" and “Constitution.”
  6. To pass a law (lex) with the intention of binding the faithful to that law. Licit/illicit status: The lawfulness or unlawfulness of a certain act that may or may not affect the validity of that act. ...
  7. To enact laws or pass resolutions by the lawmaking process, in contrast to law that is derived from principles espoused by courts in decisions.
  8. To make, enact a law or laws; to bring about by the passage of a law. As, Congress legislates for the United States.