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legislated

legislated is the simple past and past participle of legislate.

Meaning of legislate

Verb

legislate (third-person singular simple present legislates, present participle legislating, simple past and past participle legislated)

  1. To pass laws (including the amending or repeal of existing laws).
    • If they can't get people to do the right thing by talking then they will try to legislate and enforce the statutes.
    Synonyms:
    lawmake

Adjective

legislated (not comparable)

  1. Created through legislation.

Words formed from legislated

Questions about legislated

What does legislated mean?
Legislated means created through legislation.
What is legislated the simple past and past participle of?
Legislated is the simple past and past participle of legislate.
What part of speech is legislated?
Legislated is an adjective.

Words near legislated in the dictionary

  1. legions
  2. legis.
  3. legisign
  4. legisigns
  5. legislate
  6. legislated
  7. legislates
  8. legislating
  9. legislation
  10. legislational
  11. legislations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: legislated (page history and authors); legislate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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