Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LEG'IS-LA-TIVE, a. [Fr. legislatif.]

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.