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legislate, v.|ˈlɛdʒɪsleɪt|
[Back-formation from legislator, legislation.]
1. trans. To make laws for. rare—1.
1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) II. 66 The Parliament sate..Legislating the Nation.
2. intr. To perform the function of legislation; to make or enact laws.
1805Bp. Watson Charge (1808) 16 Solon, in legislating for the Athenians, had an idea of a more perfect Constitution than he gave them. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. II. 119 The emperor had a right to legislate for the whole country. 1846McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) II. 247 The renunciation by the British Parliament of the right to legislate for that kingdom [Ireland]. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 135 All states legislate under the idea that there are two classes of actions, the voluntary and the involuntary.
3. quasi-trans. To bring or drive by legislation into or out of. Also rarely trans. to bring about or control by legislation.
1845[see legislated ppl. a. below]. 1847R. W. Hamilton Disq. Sabbath ii. (1848) 39 The same power which legislated the very circumstances, alone can release them. 1849Tait's Mag. XVI. 401/2 Trades' unions..should be educated, and not legislated into usefulness. 1854Act U.S.A. Congress in Encycl. Brit. (1860) XXI. 442/2 Not to legislate Slavery into any Territory or State. 1859W. Chadwick Life De Foe iv. 237, I do not want to see a people legislated into poverty. 1887Rider Haggard Jess i. (1899) 78 It [this sentiment] is beginning to die down and to be legislated out of our national character.
Hence ˈlegislated ppl. a., ˈlegislating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1845R. W. Hamilton Pop. Educ. viii. (ed. 2) 178 Schemes of legislated instruction. 1890–1J. Orr Christian View God (1893) 131 The..presence of a morally legislating and commanding Reason within us. 1898Westm. Gaz. 16 May 2/1 The legislated depreciation of this one estate..had cost him..not less than {pstlg}120,000. 1899A. E. Garvie Ritschlian Theol. 33 He analyses the conceptions of the condemning and of the legislating conscience. |
