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Webster 1913 Edition

Legislature

Leg′is-laˊture

(lĕj′ĭs-lāˊtū̍r; 135)
,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
législature
.]
The body of persons in a state or kingdom invested with power to make and repeal laws; a legislative body.
Without the concurrent consent of all three parts of the
legislature
, no law is, or can be, made.
Sir M. Hale.
☞ The
legislature
of Great Britain consists of the Lords and Commons, with the king or queen, whose sanction is necessary to every bill before it becomes a law. The
legislatures
of most of the United States consist of two houses or branches; but the sanction or consent of the governor is required to give their acts the force of law, or a concurrence of two thirds of the two houses after he has refused his sanction and assigned his objections.

Webster 1828 Edition

Legislature

LEG'ISLATURE

,
Noun.
the body of men in a state or kingdom, invested with power to make and repeal laws; the supreme power of a state. The legislature of Great Britain consists of the house of lords and the house of commons with the king, whose sanction is necessary to every bill before it becomes a law. The legislatures of most of the states in America, consist of two houses or branches, but the sanction of the govenor is required to give their acts the force of law, or a concurrence of two thirds of the two houses, after he has declined and assigned his objections.

Definition 2024

legislature

legislature

See also: législature

English

Noun

legislature ‎(plural legislatures)

  1. A governmental body with the power to make, amend and repeal laws.
  2. (Canada) A legislative building.

Translations

governmental body
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 立法機關 (zh), 立法机关 (zh) ‎(lìfǎ jīguān)
  • Czech: zákonodárný sbor m, legislativa f
  • Dutch: wetgevende macht f, m
  • Finnish: lainsäädäntöelin
  • French: corps législatif m
  • Georgian: საკანონმდებლო ‎(saḳanonmdeblo), საკანონმდებლო ორგანო ‎(saḳanonmdeblo organo), საკანონმდებლო ხელისუფლება ‎(saḳanonmdeblo xelisupleba), ლეგისლატურა ‎(legislaṭura)
  • German: Legislative (de) f, gesetzgebende Gewalt f
  • Greek: νομοθετικό σώμα n ‎(nomothetikó sóma)
  • Hausa: majalisa (ha)
  • Japanese: 立法府 ‎(りっぽうふ, rippofu)
  • Maori: rūnanga hanga ture
  • Navajo: naatʼááh bá hooghan
  • Norman: législatuthe f
  • Khmer: នីតិបញ្ញត្តិ ‎(ni teh panh nhat)
  • Persian: مجلس (fa), پارلمان (fa)
  • Portuguese: legislatura f
  • Romanian: corp legislativ (ro) n
  • Russian: законода́тельная власть f ‎(zakonodátelʹnaja vlastʹ), законода́тельный о́рган m ‎(zakonodátelʹnyj órgan), заксобрание (ru) n ‎(zaksobranije)
  • Spanish: legislatura f
  • Swedish: lagstiftande församling c, legislatur c
  • Tagalog: batasan
  • Thai: สภานิติบัญญัติ ‎(sapha niti banyat)
  • Ukrainian: законодавча влада (uk) f ‎(zakonodávča vláda)

References

  • “legislature” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Italian

Noun

legislature f

  1. plural of legislatura

Etymology

1676, from stem of legislator + -ure, cognate with (French): législature

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈlɛdʒɪsleɪtʃɚ/

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