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Webster 1913 Edition
Legislative
Leg′is-la-tive
(lĕj′ĭs-lā̍-tĭv)
, Adj.
[Cf. F.
législatif
.] 1.
Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; – distinguished from
executive
; as, a
. legislative
act; a legislative
bodyThe supreme
legislative
power of England was lodged in the king and great council, or what was afterwards called the Parliament. Hume.
2.
Of or pertaining to the making of laws; suitable to legislation;
as, the transaction of
legislative
business; the legislative
style.Webster 1828 Edition
Legislative
LEG'ISLATIVE
, a.1.
Giving or enacting laws; as a legislative body.2.
Capable of enacting laws; as legislative power.3.
Pertaining to the enacting of laws; suitable to laws; as the legislative style.4.
Done by enacting; as a legislative act.[Note. In this word, and in legislator, legislatrix, legislature, the accent is nearly equal on the first and third syllables, and a, in the third, has its first or long sound.]