单词 | legislative |
释义 | legislativeadj.n. A. adj. 1. Of or relating to legislation or the making of laws. ΘΚΠ society > law > legislation > [adjective] legislative1621 legislatorya1639 legislatorial1703 legislational1819 society > law > legislation > [adjective] > legislating law-givinga1586 nomothetical1618 legislative1621 nomothetic1638 legislating1659 legislatorial1820 1621 M. Kellison Right & Iurisdiction of Prelate & Prince iv. 88 But they should not haue all power belonging therevnto, vnlesse they haue a Power Legislatiue. 1668 J. Denham Poems 66 Their Legislative Frenzy they repent; Enacting it should make no President. 1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music v. 79 During the early Periods of Civilization, the legislative Art is always of an imperfect Form. 1788 S. Low Politician Out-witted ii. ii. 19 It is a political phoenomenon, a prodigy of legislative wisdom. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 198 The leaders of the legislative clubs and coffee-houses. View more context for this quotation 1871 H. Moncrieff Pract. Free Church Scotl. 65 With the view of inducing the Superior Court to adopt any measure within its legislative or executive functions. 1883 Cent. Mag. Feb. 617/2 Legislative activity has diminished since ten years ago. 1926 Accounting Rev. 1 42 Preservation of legislative rights is of course essential to the complete realization of popular government. 1955 ABA Jrnl. Nov. 1048/1 Much of the legislative function has been transferred to the administrative process. 2013 New Yorker 11 Mar. 69/3 The Vice-Presidency..proved unsatisfying to a man who had preferred executive posts to legislative ones. 2. That legislates, that has the function of legislating, that has the power to legislate. ΚΠ 1641 Ld. Digby Speeches High Court Parl. 24 Where is the legislative Authority?.. In the King circled in, fortified and evirtuated by his Parliament. 1654 O. Cromwell Speech 12 Sept. in Writings & Speeches (1945) (modernized text) III. 454 It was a conversion from a Parliament..to a Legislative Power always sitting. 1670 Baker's Chron. Kings of Eng. (new ed.) 584/1 The peoples Legislative Deputies in Parliament. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. ii. 146 If half of the members met, and half absented themselves, who shall determine which is really the legislative body, the part assembled, or that which stays away? 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. iii. 15 Parliaments were originally judicial as well as legislative assemblies. 1921 New Republic 20 July 214/1 Overthrowing the revolutionaries who controlled the legislative branch if not the executive. 1970 A. Toffler Future Shock xx. 483 Legislative bodies..lack the time, the resources, or the organizational forms needed to think seriously about the long-term future. 1992 Wilson Q. Spring 114/1 The Republicans..captured both the executive and legislative branches of the federal government. 2014 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 21 Oct. a10/1 The People's Consultative Assembly, a legislative superbody dominated by the House of Representatives. 3. Enacted or appointed by legislation. ΘΚΠ society > law > legislation > [adjective] > brought about or enacted by legislation enacted1579 legislative1642 enact1643 constituted1651 legislated1845 1642 E. Waller Vindic. of King 4 If that be defective to punish those they please to call Delinquents, their Legislative Ordinance can as well supply that defect. 1757 E. Perronet Mitre (new ed.) ii. 76 The law..is nothing more than a courteous legislative continuance of those acts which were made in their behalf. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xxvi. 407 Much may be also collected from the several legislative recognitions of copyrights. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 290 Nor did the Estates mention the use of torture among the grievances which required a legislative remedy. 1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. II. v. 50 The remedy for the evil was found in the legislative emancipation of Scotch industry. 1910 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 18 466 A property right enjoyed by women as by men, is still..subject to such legislative restrictions as are required by the public well-being. 1950 J. R. Smith Tree Crops (new ed.) xxv. 369 Two legislative blows at the very base of civilization. 1992 P. W. Birnie & A. E. Boyle Internat. Law & Environment xi. i. 424 The international community has not developed a legislative response to the question whether killing animals is wrong. 2002 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 20 July 5/1 There were no legislative provisions to charge people with paint sniffing, a police source said. B. n. 1. The power of legislating or making laws; the body in which this power is vested, the legislature. Opposed to executive. ΘΚΠ society > law > legislation > [noun] > power of legislative1641 society > law > legislation > legislator > [noun] > body of legislators legislative1641 legislaturea1676 legislation1676 1641 H. Parker True Grounds Eccl. Regiment 94 Tis true anciently Princes were the only Legislatives. 1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) 292 What authority is equall to this Legislative of the Bishops? 1689 W. Atwood Ld. Chief Justice Herbert's Acct. Examined 5 The King has not the Legislative exclusive of others. 1712 G. Berkeley Passive Obed. §22. 29 To pay an absolute Submission, to the Decrees of some certain Legislative. 1784 J. Adams Hist. Dispute with Amer. 88 Governors and Councils..will be the only Legislatives in the Colonies. 1848 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. (ed. 7) V. xvii. 26 It [sc. the Polish constitution] fell when the legislative became more corrupt then the executive. 1935 Social Forces 14 180/2 We may have a strengthening of the executive against the legislative. 1954 Amer. Jrnl. Compar. Law 3 78 The question whether..the limits of transfer of power from the legislative to the executive had been transgressed was considered by the judges. 2011 G. Elliott tr. L. Boltanski On Critique 138 The principle of sovereignty..tends to render the distinction between the legislative and the executive obsolete. ΚΠ 1650 C. Elderfield Civil Right Tythes xvi. 94 He this Edgar, had them questionless from Alfred,..from Ina, Offa, Ethelbert, &c. to whose tendries he added what seemed fit of the Legislatives of West-Saxony. Compounds legislative assembly n. Politics an assembly that has the power to legislate; a national, state, or provincial legislature; spec. (a) historical. [after French Assemblée Nationale Législative (1791)] the body of legislators which succeeded the National or Constituent assembly in 1791; (also) the legislature which succeeded the Constituent assembly of 1849; (b) (in some Commonwealth countries, now esp. Australia and India) the lower house of a bicameral state or provincial parliament (cf. legislative council n.). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] legislative assembly1657 1657 S. Gorton Antidote against Common Plague of World 240 He finds their legislative Assembly to be the Author thereof. 1765 London Mag. Sept. 449/2 Their legislative assemblies will always chiefly consist of the great landholders, and they will always be against any land tax. 1794 Times 12 Nov. The Commune of Paris came to the bar of the Legislative Assembly to remonstrate against the dissolution of the Commune. 1824 Morning Post 13 Jan. The law..has been lately passed by the Legislative Assembly of Saxe-Weimar. 1852 tr. V. Hugo Napoleon the Little iv. iii. 176 This struggle that the majority of the Legislative Assembly of France entered at the very beginning of its career, in the month of May, 1849. 1859 Queensl. Gaz. 10 Dec. 2/2 There shall be within our said Colony of Queensland a Legislative Council and a Legislative Assembly. 1953 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 285 158 The Legislative Assembly shall have the power to create..executive departments. 1970 N.Y. Times 20 Sept. 4/1 The government will introduce a bill in the Kashmir state legislative assembly next month to legalise abortion. 1996 Southern Cross 28 Feb. 2/5 The Victorian president of the Australian Democrats..said..[they] would stand candidates in..selected Legislative Assembly seats. 2013 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 6 Apr. 3 The state legislative assemblies of Kedah and Penang were dissolved yesterday. legislative council n. Politics a council that has the power to legislate; a national, state, or provincial legislature; spec. (in some Commonwealth countries, now esp. Australia and India) the upper house of a bicameral state or provincial parliament (cf. legislative assembly n.). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [noun] mootOE councilc1275 mootingc1275 dayc1300 assembly1366 consistoryc1374 house1389 parliamentc1390 convention1554 synodal1573 synod1578 synedrion1581 convenement1603 gemot1643 consessus1646 legislative council1651 national assembly1702 council-general1817 concilium1834 runanga1857 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > council of state > [noun] hustinga1030 Great Councilc1275 council1297 parliamentc1300 privy councilc1390 divan1586 Council of State1611 legislative council1651 1651 R. Watson Ακολουθος: Second Faire Warning xiii. 194 The prærogative of the King either solitarie or in conjunction with what persons soever he pleas'd to make his Legislative Councel. 1797 Provinc. Statutes Lower-Canada II. 20 Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Lower-Canada. 1836 Christian Advocate 15 Feb. 55/1 Laws..framed by legislative councils and congresses, are the measures by which the portion of American Africans is meted out. 1858 J. B. Norton Topics for Indian Statesmen vii. 151 The Legislative Council... has become a mere body for registering the edicts of the Governor-General. 1873 A. Trollope Aust. & N.Z. I. 245 The Upper House, or Legislative Council, in Sydney is dignified and conservative. 1902 G. S. Whitmore Last Maori War iii. 28 I had..resumed my seat in the Legislative Council. 1986 Canberra Times 3 Mar. 2/4 The legislation was defeated by the then Liberal-dominated Legislative Council. 2004 T. Wheeler Falklands & S. Georgia 25 In local affairs the eight-member, elected Legislative Council..exercises considerable power. legislative history n. U.S. Law the history of the passage of a statute as recorded in committee reports, debates in the legislature, etc., esp. when used as an additional means to interpret or clarify the meaning of the statute in deciding cases; (also) an instance of this, esp. in printed form. ΚΠ 1833 Niles' Weekly Reg. 26 Oct. 129/2 The preparation and publication of a legislative history of the land bill, introduced by Mr. Clay. 1942 in Decisions Comptroller Gen. U.S. 22 (1943) 142 In his opinion of..1909,..concerning the status in this respect of the ‘Niagara Falls Committee of Landscape Architects’.., the Attorney General reviewed the legislative history of section 9 of the act. 2010 L. M. Solan Lang. of Statutes viii. 223 The central debate over the past quarter century has been over the use of legislative history as evidence of legislative intent. legislative session n. Politics a period in which a legislative assembly sits for the purpose of making laws. ΚΠ 1787 G. Mason in M. Farrand Rec. Fed. Convention (1911) II. 272 If the Senate can originate, they will in the recess of the Legislative Sessions, hatch their mischievous projects, for their own purposes. 1851 N. Campbell Speech 21 Aug. in Votes & Proc. Leg. Council S. Austral. (1852) 5 We..desire to thank you for the address with which your Excellency has opened this our first Legislative Session. 1945 Business Week 30 June 94/2 At least 21 antidiscrimination bills were introduced during 44 legislative sessions this year. 2009 USA Today 18 Feb. 2/6 Tuesday's legislative session followed a frustrating holiday weekend that failed to yield a compromise. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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