Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

legiferate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: legifer-ate
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Example Sentences

"[…] he who possesses power to legiferate a fortiori is entitled to interpret."
"[…] logic simply cannot legiferate in ignorance of geometric covariance, because its very argumentation is mentally pictured in spacetime."
"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 […]"

Inflected Forms

legiferates (present, singular) legiferating (participle, present) legiferated (participle, past) legiferated (past)

Synonyms

legislate

Questions

What does legiferate mean?: To make law.

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