legislator
nounUK /ˈlɛd͡ʒɪˌsleɪtə/ · CA, US /ˈlɛd͡ʒɪˌsleɪtɚ/
Etymology From Latin lēgislātor.
› Someone who creates or enacts laws.
1
especially a member of a legislative body.
- Give the children of the poor that portion of education which will enable them to know their own resources; which will cultivate in them an onward-looking hope, and give them rational amusement in their leisure hours: this, and this only, will work out that moral revolution, which is the legislator's noblest purpose.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Interview”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 249:
2
especially not any individual member of a legislative body but the abstracted author of a statute or statutes relevant for the principles of interpretation.
- Derived terms
- colegislator, legislatorship, legislatress, nonlegislator