legislate has definitions from the field of law
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[ verb ] (law) make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation

Synonyms

pass

Examples

"They passed the amendment" "We cannot legislate how people's spend their free time"

Used in print

(Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)

Here in 1815 the great nations assembled to legislate not merely for Europe , but for the world .

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