英语词汇“legislation”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

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legislation

释义

legislation|lɛdʒɪsˈleɪʃən|
[a. late L. lēgislātiōn-em, properly two words = ‘bringing of a law’ (lēgis, genitive of lēx law + lātiōn-em bringing: see lation). Cf. F. législation.]
1. The action of making or giving laws; the enactment of laws, lawgiving; an instance of this.
a1655J. Goodman Winter Even. Conf. iii. (1705) 116 Let me to intreat you to explain what you mean by this way of Divine Legislation.1675Baxter Cath. Theol. ii. i. 213 Gods Legislation was a real Action; but the Law made doth not act at all.1747Ld. Lyttleton Observ. Convers. Paul 18 Pythagoras, who join'd Legislation to his Philosophy, and..pretended to Miracles..to give a more venerable Sanction to the Laws he prescribed.1828C. Fry Script. Rdr.'s Guide ix. 124 When the inspired historian tells his story of..the wars and legislations of other ages.1876Freeman Norm. Conq. V. xxiv. 395 Legislation, as we understand it, did not, in the ideas of those times, fill any prominent place among the duties of a king.
†2. A legislative body, a legislature. Obs.
1693Humours Town 96 The Common-Council-Man is a Man of Authority, a Member of the City-Legislation.
3. The enactments of a legislator or legislature; the whole body of enacted laws.
1838Thirlwall Greece viii. I. 297 A legislation in which, as in that of Moses, religion is..the main element.1872Yeats Growth Comm. 137 The acts..are largely taken up with legislation affecting the national commerce.
Hence legiˈslational a., pertaining to legislation.
1829Bentham Justice & Cod. Petit., Abr. Petit. Justice 22 A legislational proceeding.

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