Legislate Synonyms

lĕjĭ-slāt
To put in force or cause to be by legal authority
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. enact
  2. constitute
  3. pass
  4. make
  5. make laws
  6. enforce laws
  7. establish
  8. promulgate

Words Related to Legislate

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. action
  2. politics
  3. take-action
  4. enforce
  5. abolish

Legislate Sentence Examples

  • Moreover, the English Houses claimed and exercised the power to legislate directly for Ireland without even the nominal concurrence of the parliament in Dublin.

  • It would be wholly impractical to legislate for all possibilities.

  • The humans of Earth greatly resent the robots who take over their jobs, and there is a move afoot to legislate them off the planet altogether.

  • In 1765 he was elected a member of the Virginia legislature, where he became in the same year the author of the "Virginia Resolutions," which were no less than a declaration of resistance to the Stamp Act and an assertion of the right of the colonies to legislate for themselves independently of the control of the British parliament, and gave a most powerful impetus to the movement resulting in the War of Independence.

  • The proprietors were to legislate for the colony " by and with the advice, assent and approbation of the freemen."

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