legiferate

English

Verb

legiferate (third-person singular simple present legiferates, present participle legiferating, simple past and past participle legiferated)

1. (rare, chiefly Europe) To make law.
   • 1979, Gaetano Arangio Ruiz, The United Nations Declaration on Friendly Relations and the System of the Sources of International Law, BRILL, page 82:

     […] he who possesses power to legiferate a fortiori is entitled to interpret.

   • 1993, O. Costa de Beauregard, “Relativity and probability: The logic of intersubjectivity”, in Symposium On The Foundations Of Modern Physics 1993, page 155:

     […] logic simply cannot legiferate in ignorance of geometric covariance, because its very argumentation is mentally pictured in spacetime.

   • 2019, Silvia Allegrezza, “On Legality in Criminal Matters between Primacy of EU Law and National Constitutional Traditions: A Study of the Taricco Saga”, in The Court of Justice and European Criminal Law: Leading Cases in a Contextual Analysis, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 186:

     Subsidiarity in criminal law, in fact, can hardly cope with the European subsidiarity, because the latter deprives the EU organs of a general power to legiferate in this sensitive field […]

Synonyms

• legislate

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

legiferate

1. inflection of legiferare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

legiferate f pl

1. feminine plural of legiferato

Anagrams

• telegrafie