Definitions for legislates

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legislates leg·is·late

Spelling: [lej-is-leyt]

IPA: /ˈlɛdʒ ɪsˌleɪt/

Legislates is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 514 anagrams from letters in legislates (aeegillsst).

Definitions for legislates

verb (used with object)

1. to create, provide, or control by legislation:
2. to create, provide, or control by legislation:

verb (used without object)

1. to exercise the function of legislation; make or enact laws.
2. to exercise the function of legislation; make or enact laws.

Origin of legislates

First recorded in 1710-20; back formation from legislation, legislator

Examples for legislates

Now the voluntary cannot be the involuntary; and if you two come to me and say, 'Then shall we legislate for our city?'

No politician has the right to legislate for the awful things that can happen during pregnancy.

But it is impossible to legislate for every individual case.

The result is that you cannot legislate about them, and still less can you be silent.

Now that all efforts to legislate gun control are stalled, it may be time for mental-health legislation to stand on its own.

These are excuses offered up by a party that is too divided to govern and legislate.

And for this reason, I said, I shall not attempt to legislate further about them.

And it might not only be in Britain that politicians rush to legislate.

Are we in danger, in the rush to legislate, of ruining the moment?

And now, let us proceed to legislate with a view to perfecting the form and outline of our state.

In a democracy, every one legislates, and every one legislates for his own interests.

Nobody denies that Congress, if it legislates on this matter, may allow trial by jury.

This "spirit or conscience" "legislates without appeal except to himself."

In times of emergency, she steps to the front and legislates, judges, or fights.

But we contended, that the sanctity of an act is to be deduced from the sanctity of the subjects for which it legislates.

Hence, let its meaning be what it may, it legislates nothing for or against slavery.

He is obliged to take the reports of others, and consequently very often legislates unadvisedly.

The most subjective of feelings, the feeling of what ought to be, legislates for the universe.

It legislates, consciously or otherwise, more for accumulated wealth, than for the laboring man who now accumulates.

Rhode Island legislates to restrict slavery in the Province.