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Webster 1913 Edition
Legislate
Leg′is-late
(lĕj′ĭs-lāt)
, Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Legislated
(-lāˊtĕd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Legislating
(-lāˊtĭng)
.] [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).
Webster 1828 Edition
Legislate
LEG'ISLATE
,Verb.
I.
To make or enact a law or laws. It is a question whether it is expedient to legislate at present on the subject. Let us not legislate, when we have no power to enforce our laws.