Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Making or enacting laws; legislating.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Enacting laws; legislative.
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- adjective
Enacting laws ;legislative .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Archaic Arabian shrines were usually served by seven high priestesses, recalling the lawgiving Seven Sages, who were women.
Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008
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Yet they also have the same tradition of study and lawgiving.
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From a historic act of lawgiving, the ratification, to which all others accede by remaining on the territory governed by it past the age of majority.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Conceptions of Constitutionality — More Thoughts In Reply to Randy: 2009
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How can we sustain ourselves as the United States of America, given the stupid and ineffective warmaking, the constitutionally insensitive lawgiving, and the monarchal economics of this president?
E. L. Doctorow: "I fault this President for not knowing what death is" 2008
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An overtone, if you will, which is why every culture has one (or more) and why the specifics vary so wildly even while sharing certain commonalities (creation myths, lawgiving, dakr and light, etc).
A Dark And Hidden God Hal Duncan 2006
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He becomes the face of our sky, the conditions that prevail: How can we sustain ourselves as the United States of America given the stupid and ineffective war-making, the constitutionally insensitive lawgiving, and the monarchal economics of this president?
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How can we sustain ourselves as the United States of America given the stupid and ineffective warmaking, the constitutionally insensitive lawgiving, and the monarchal economics of this president?
August 2005 2005
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For his Islamic predecessors it is, of course, Muhammad who plays this operative role as the virtous lawgiving prophet able to lead a community to virtue through the creative imagery and persuasions of religion through the imaginative and rhetorically persuasive imageries of the Quran.
The Influence of Islamic Thought on Maimonides Pessin, Sarah 2005
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In Turkey, besides their lawgiving devines, they have no other writers but Poets.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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The model for such action is royal or imperial lawgiving, the kind of thing the Renaissance associated with the names of Lycurgus and Justinian.
'Forms of Nationhood' Helgerson, Richard 1992
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