Leg"is*late (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Legislated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Legislating (?).] [See Legislator.]
To make or enact a law or laws.
Solon, in legislating for the Athenians, had an idea of a more perfect constitution than he gave them.
Bp. Watson (1805).
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