LEG'ISLATIVE, adjective 1. Giving or enacting laws; as a legislative body. 2. Capable of enacting laws; as legislative power. 3. Pertaining to the enacting of laws; suitable to laws; as the legislative style. 4. Done by enacting; as a legislative act. [Note. In this word, and in legislator, legislatrix, legislature, the accent is nearly equal on the first and third syllables, and a, in the third, has its first or long sound.]
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