legiferate
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]legiferate (third-person singular simple present legiferates, present participle legiferating, simple past and past participle legiferated)
- (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 […]
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[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]legiferate
- inflection of legiferare:
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]legiferate f pl