Legislate Definition

lĕjĭ-slāt
legislated, legislates, legislating
verb
legislated, legislates, legislating
To cause to be, become, go, etc. by making laws.
Webster's New World
To make or pass a law or laws.
Webster's New World
To draft or enact (a law).
American Heritage
To bring about, establish, or influence by means of legislation.
Legislate safety standards; legislate social attitudes.
American Heritage
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Origin of Legislate

  • Back formation from legislation, legislator.

    From Wiktionary

  • Back-formation from legislator

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Legislate Sentence Examples

  • Moreover, the English Houses claimed and exercised the power to legislate directly for Ireland without even the nominal concurrence of the parliament in Dublin.

  • It would be wholly impractical to legislate for all possibilities.

  • The humans of Earth greatly resent the robots who take over their jobs, and there is a move afoot to legislate them off the planet altogether.

  • In 1765 he was elected a member of the Virginia legislature, where he became in the same year the author of the "Virginia Resolutions," which were no less than a declaration of resistance to the Stamp Act and an assertion of the right of the colonies to legislate for themselves independently of the control of the British parliament, and gave a most powerful impetus to the movement resulting in the War of Independence.

  • The proprietors were to legislate for the colony " by and with the advice, assent and approbation of the freemen."

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