legislator

plural legislators · alternative obsolete rare legislatour

1. Someone who creates or enacts laws.
   1. especially a member of a legislative body.

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      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

      Synonyms: lawmaker

   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.

      Synonyms: lawmaker