单词 | lawmaker |
释义 | lawmakern. One who makes laws; a lawgiver, legislator. ΘΚΠ society > law > legislation > legislator > [noun] lawmakerc1380 lawgivera1382 law-bearer1483 legislatora1513 conditora1533 law-setter?1573 law-writer1580 nomothete1586 legifer1602 enactor1609 Numa1614 lawyera1647 nomographer1656 law-framer1876 Solon1903 c1380 Antecrist in Todd 3 Treat. Wyclif 115 David seiþ Lord sett þou a lawe maker upon hem. a1540 R. Barnes Wks. (1573) 207 As though I had condempned the lawemaker, lawe, and execution thereof. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxv. 435 The Scepter shall not be taken from Iuda, nor the Lawmaker from betweene his feete, vntill Silo come. 1624 P. Massinger Bond-man iv. ii. sig. H2 Wise Law-makers, From each well-gouern'd priuate house deriu'd The perfect modell of a Common-wealth. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 335 Aristotle informs us, that the best and most of the Law-makers were Men of the middle Rank. 1833 H. Martineau Tale of Tyne v. 94 The practice of these lawmakers agreed with their principle. 1881 Times 5 Feb. 9/3 No laws work uninterruptedly without the supervision of the lawmaker. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.c1380 |
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