legiferate

English

Verb

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

  1. (rare, chiefly Europe) To make law.
    • 1979, Gaetano Arangio Ruiz, The United Nations Declaration on Friendly Relations and the System of the Sources of International Law, BRILL, page 82:
      [] he who possesses power to legiferate a fortiori is entitled to interpret.
    • 1993, O. Costa de Beauregard, “Relativity and probability: The logic of intersubjectivity”, in Symposium On The Foundations Of Modern Physics 1993, page 155:
      [] logic simply cannot legiferate in ignorance of geometric covariance, because its very argumentation is mentally pictured in spacetime.
    • 2019, Silvia Allegrezza, “On Legality in Criminal Matters between Primacy of EU Law and National Constitutional Traditions: A Study of the Taricco Saga”, in The Court of Justice and European Criminal Law: Leading Cases in a Contextual Analysis, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 186:
      Subsidiarity in criminal law, in fact, can hardly cope with the European subsidiarity, because the latter deprives the EU organs of a general power to legiferate in this sensitive field []

Synonyms

Italian

Verb

legiferate

  1. inflection of legiferare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Participle

legiferate f pl

  1. feminine plural of legiferato

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