Word Meanings - LEGISLATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted. Pythagoras joined legislation to his philosophy. Lyttelton.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LEGISLATION)
- Law
- Rule
- edict
- regulation
- decree
- command
- order
- statute
- enactment
- mode
- method
- sequence
- principle
- code
- legislation
- adjudication
- jurisdiction
- jurisprudence
- Statute
- Enactment
- law
- act
- ordinance
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LEGISLATION)
Related words: (words related to LEGISLATION)
- SUPPLICATE
supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To - SUGGESTER
One who suggests. Beau. & Fl. - SUGGEST
1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty; - PERSUADER
One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton. - 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, - PERSUADED
Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n. - SUGGESTRESS
A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey. - COMMANDING
1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn. - REPRESENTABLE
Capable of being represented. - SUGGESTION
Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party. (more info) 1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea. 2. That which is suggested; - REPRESENTANT
Appearing or acting for another; representing. - ENTREATY
1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication; - EDICT
A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch. It stands as - METHOD
Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnæan method. Syn. -- Order; system; rule; regularity; way; manner; mode; course; - COMMANDATORY
Mandatory; as, commandatory authority. - PETITIONARILY
By way of begging the question; by an assumption. Sir T. Browne. - COMMANDO
In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers. The war bands, called commandos, have played a great part in the . . . military history of the country. James Bryce. - ENTREATFUL
Full of entreaty. See Intreatful. - EDICTAL
Relating to, or consisting of, edicts; as, the Roman edictal law. - METHODIZE
To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts. Spectator. - INCONSEQUENCE
The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd. - IMBORDER
To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton. - MISORDER
To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak. - BENEDICT; BENEDICK
A married man, or a man newly married. - IRREPRESENTABLE
Not capable of being represented or portrayed. - ACCORDER
One who accords, assents, or concedes.