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legiferate

legiferate verb: to make law.

Verb

legiferate (third-person singular simple present legiferates, present participle legiferating, simple past and past participle legiferated)

  1. (Europe, rare) To make law.
    • […] he who possesses power to legiferate a fortiori is entitled to interpret.1979, Gaetano Arangio Ruiz, The United Nations Declaration on Friendly Relations and the System of the Sources of International Law, BRILL, page 82
    • […] logic simply cannot legiferate in ignorance of geometric covariance, because its very argumentation is mentally pictured in spacetime.1993, O. Costa de Beauregard, “Relativity and probability: The logic of intersubjectivity”, in Symposium On The Foundations Of Modern Physics 1993, page 155
    Synonyms:
    legislate

Synonyms of legiferate

Forms of legiferate

third-person singular presentlegiferates
present participlelegiferating
past participlelegiferated
pastlegiferated

Questions about legiferate

What does legiferate mean?
Legiferate means to make law.
What part of speech is legiferate?
Legiferate is a verb.
What is the past tense of legiferate?
The past tense of legiferate is legiferated.

Words near legiferate in the dictionary

  1. legibility
  2. legible
  3. legibleness
  4. legibly
  5. legicide
  6. legiferate
  7. legific
  8. legilium
  9. leging
  10. legion
  11. Legion of Honor

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