Word Meanings - LEGISLATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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 .

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• ENACTMENT
  1. The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law. 2. That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as,
• ENACTURE
  Enactment; resolution. Shak.
• PERFECT
  Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence , a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord , a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly
• CONSTITUTIONALIST
  One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.
• CONSTITUTION
  1. The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation. 2. The state of being; that form of being, or structure and connection of parts, which constitutes and characterizes
• LEGISLATIVE
  1. Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; -- distinguished from executive; as, a legislative act; a legislative body. The supreme legislative power of England was lodged in the king and great council, or what was afterwards
• ENACTOR
  One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law. Atterbury.
• PERFECTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to perfection; characterized by perfection. Bp. Pearson.
• LEGISLATOR
  A lawgiver; one who makes laws for a state or community; a member of a legislative body. The legislators in ancient and heroical times. Bacon. Many of the legislators themselves had taken an oath of abjuration of his Majesty's person and family.
• PERFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being perfectible.
• PERFECTIBLE
  Capable of becoming, or being made, perfect.
• PERFECTION
  1. The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection in an
• LEGISLATION
  The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted. Pythagoras joined legislation to his philosophy. Lyttelton.
• PERFECTNESS
  The quality or state of being perfect; perfection. "Charity, which is the bond of perfectness." Col. iii. 14.
• SOLON
  A celebrated Athenian lawmaker, born about 638 b. c.; hence, a legislator; a publicist; -- often used ironically.
• LEGISLATRESS; LEGISLATRIX
  A woman who makes laws. Shaftesbury.
• PERFECTIONMENT
  The act of bringing to perfection, or the state of having attained to perfection. I. Taylor.
• PERFECTIBILIAN
  A perfectionist. Ed. Rev.
• CONSTITUTIONALITY
  1. The quality or state of being constitutional, or inherent in the natural frame. 2. The state of being consistent with the constitution or frame of government, or of being authorized by its provisions. Burke. Constitutionalities, bottomless
• PERFECTER
  One who, or that which, makes perfect. "The . . . perfecter of our faith." Barrow.
• IMPERFECT
  1. Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient. Something he left imperfect in the state. Shak. Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect. Shak. 2. Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential
• UNPERFECT
  To mar or destroy the perfection of. Sir P. Sidney.
• REENACT
  To enact again.
• IMPERFECTIBLE
  Incapable of being mad perfect.