legislative

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: leg=is=la=tive

CIDE DICTIONARY

legislative, a. [Cf. F. législatif.].

•  Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; -- distinguished from executive; as, a legislative act; a legislative body.  [1913 Webster]

  "The supreme legislative power of England was lodged in the king and great council, or what was afterwards called the Parliament."  [1913 Webster]
•  Of or pertaining to the making of laws; suitable to legislation; as, the transaction of legislative business; the legislative style.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

legislative, adj. of or empowered to make legislation.

Derivative

legislatively adv.

THESAURUS

legislative

actionable, applicable, authorized, bicameral, competent, congressional, constitutional, deliberative, judicial, juridical, just, justiciable, kosher, lawful, lawmaking, legal, legislatorial, legit, legitimate, licit, parliamentary, rightful, sanctioned, senatorial, statutory, unicameral, valid, within the law

ROGET THESAURUS

legislative

Council

N council, committee, subcommittee, comitia, court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff, senate, senatus, parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath, rigsdag, cortes, storthing, witenagemote, junta, divan, musnud, sanhedrim, classis, Amphictyonic council, duma, house of representatives, legislative assembly, legislative council, riksdag, volksraad, witan, caput, consistory, chapter, syndicate, court of appeal, board of control, board of works, vestry, county council, local board, audience chamber, council chamber, state chamber, cabinet council, privy council, cockpit, convocation, synod, congress, convention, diet, states-general, assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle, meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house, quorum, council fire, powwow, primary, meeting, assemblage, member, senator, member of parliament, M, P, councilor, representative of the people, assemblyman, congressman, councilman, councilwoman, alderman, freeholder, senatorial, curule, congressional, parliamentary, legislative, law-making, regulatory, deliberative.

Legality

N legality, legitimacy, legitimateness, legislature, law, code, corpus juris, constitution, pandect, charter, enactment, statute, rule, canon, ordinance, institution, regulation, bylaw, byelaw, decree, ordonnance, standing order, plebiscite, legal process, form, formula, formality, rite, arm of the law, habeas corpus, fieri facias, jurisprudence, nomology, legislation, codification, equity, common law, lex, lex nonscripta, law of nations, droit des gens, international law, jus gentium, jus civile, civil law, canon law, crown law, criminal law, statute law, ecclesiastical law, administrative law, lex mercatoria, constitutionalism, constitutionality, justice, court, tribunal, judge, lawyer, attorney, legal counsel, legal, legitimate, according to law, vested, constitutional, chartered, legalized, lawful, statutable, statutory, legislatorial, legislative, regulatory, regulated, legally, in the eye of the law, de jure, ignorantia legis neminem excusat, ignorance of the law is no excuse, where law ends tyranny begins.