Category:Legislate

Leg"is*late, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Legislated; p. pr. & vb. n. Legislating.] Etym: [See Legislator.]

Defn: 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).