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- English Word Legislative Definition Of or pertaining to the making of laws; suitable to legislation; as, the transaction of legislative business; the legislative style.
- English Word Legislatively Definition In a legislative manner.
- English Word Legislator Definition A lawgiver; one who makes laws for a state or community; a member of a legislative body.
- English Word Legislatorial Definition Of or pertaining to a legislator or legislature.
- English Word Legislatorship Definition The office of a legislator.
- English Word Legislatress Definition Alt. of Legislatrix
- English Word Legislatrix Definition A woman who makes laws.
- English Word Legislature Definition The body of persons in a state or kingdom invested with power to make and repeal laws; a legislative body.
- English Word Legist Definition One skilled in the laws; a writer on law.
- English Word Legitim Definition The portion of movable estate to which the children are entitled upon the death of the father.
- English Word Legitimacy Definition The state, or quality, of being legitimate, or in conformity with law; hence, the condition of having been lawfully begotten, or born in wedlock.
- English Word Legitimate Definition Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir.
- English Word Legitimate Definition Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.
- English Word Legitimate Definition Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions.
- English Word Legitimate Definition Conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors.
- English Word Legitimate Definition Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference.
- English Word Legitimate Definition To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; esp., to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means; as, to legitimate a bastard child.
- English Word Legitimated Definition of Legitimate
- English Word Legitimately Definition In a legitimate manner; lawfully; genuinely.
- English Word Legitimateness Definition The state or quality of being legitimate; lawfulness; genuineness.