LEG'ISLATIVE, a.
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.]
