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legislatorial, a.|lɛdʒɪsləˈtɔərɪəl|
[f. as next + -al1.]
1. Having the power to legislate, acting as a legislator or legislature.
1819Gen. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 104/2 At a public meeting holden on July 12..the managers..proposed that the same Sir Charles [Wolseley] should be sent up to parliament as ‘legislatorial attorney and representative of Birmingham’. 1841De Quincey Homer Wks. 1857 VI. 349 Solon, the legislatorial founder of Athens. 1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 357 One may imagine a community governed by a dependent legislatorial body or person.
2. Of or pertaining to a legislator or legislation.
1774–5Bentham Commonplace Bk. Wks. 1843 X. 76 A System of Rules for the Conversion of Long Sentences into Short Ones, for the Legislatorial Style. 1829Examiner 306/2 A capital legislatorial jeu d'esprit. 1833Fraser's Mag. VIII. 246 He would have done better to stick to his legislatorial duties.
Hence legislaˈtorially adv.
1827Westm. Rev. VII. 30 The judges legislatorially refuse to acknowledge certain rights of the landlords. |