legislatorn.

a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1926) I. 114 The law was maid for the keping of the toune, and that was the entencioune of the legislatore.

1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum ii. xxiv. 86 Our auncient Princes and legislators haue nourished them, as to make them stout hearted, couragious and souldiers, not villaines and slaues.

1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 61 This Boat..saves from wracke the future Legislator [sc. Moses].

1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist ii. v. 10 He draweth the absolute authoritie of Man, not from God as he is God, but as he is Legis-lator only.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvi. 139 For the Legislator is he, not by whose authority the Lawes were first made, but by whose authority they now continue to be Lawes.

1654 O. Cromwell Speech 12 Sept. in Writings & Speeches (1945) (modernized text) III. 459 Of what assurance is a law to prevent so great an evil, if it lie in one or the same legislator to unlaw it again?

1715 A. Pope Temple of Fame 12 Heroes in animated Marble frown, And Legislators seem to think in Stone.

1767 tr. C. di Beccaria Bonesana Ess. Crimes xxvii. 75 The hand of the legislator and the assassin were directed by the same spirit of ferocity; which..dictated laws of iron to slaves and savages.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 248 It seems as if it were the prevalent opinion in Paris, that an unfeeling heart, and an undoubting confidence, are the sole qualifications for a perfect legislator . View more context for this quotation

1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 7 Sept. 61 Laws in doubtful points are to be interpreted according to the design of the legislator.

1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. 77 Legislators have long since discovered the absurdity of attempting to fix prices by law.

1920 Times 15 Nov. 13/3 As a legislator his [sc. Dr. Addison's] efforts reveal the worst kind of dilettantism.

1976 Billings Gaz. (Montana) 1 July 1- c/3 George T. Bennet, Helena, lawyer and former legislator.

1990 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 11 Oct. 1 b Earlier this week legislators began getting letters from the state attorney.

2006 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (Nexis) 24 June 15 Most legislators who support the move are reluctant to speak up for themselves.

1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 To Rdr. sig. ¶4 How can I chuse..but bee much confounded at that which the old legislator [Sp. legislador] (the Vulgar) will say, when it sees that..I..bring with me a booke..altogether empty both of learning & eloquence.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 106. 48 Nothing is more common than to find men whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries, as..the legislators of science.

1821 Ld. Byron Two Foscari iv. i, in Sardanapalus 256 I will be legislator in this business.

1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets i. 29 Aristotle is the legislator for the human intellect through eighteen centuries after his death.

1920 H. J. Laski Polit. Thought in Eng. v. 131 Self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.

1972 Found. Lang. 8 114 Since different names can be applied to the same object, the legislator of names must have been some fallible human agent.

2006 Rhetorica 24 205 Conscience is the voice within us, the judge of our past and legislator of our future actions.