"legiferate" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "legiferates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "legiferating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "legiferated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "legiferated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "legiferate (third-person singular simple present legiferates, present participle legiferating, simple past and past participle legiferated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "European English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1979, Gaetano Arangio Ruiz, The United Nations Declaration on Friendly Relations and the System of the Sources of International Law, BRILL, page 82",
          "text": "[…] he who possesses power to legiferate a fortiori is entitled to interpret.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, O. Costa de Beauregard, “Relativity and probability: The logic of intersubjectivity”, in Symposium On The Foundations Of Modern Physics 1993, page 155",
          "text": "[…] logic simply cannot legiferate in ignorance of geometric covariance, because its very argumentation is mentally pictured in spacetime.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Silvia Allegrezza, “On Legality in Criminal Matters between Primacy of EU Law and National Constitutional Traditions: A Study of the Taricco Saga”, in The Court of Justice and European Criminal Law: Leading Cases in a Contextual Analysis, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 186",
          "text": "Subsidiarity in criminal law, in fact, can hardly cope with the European subsidiarity, because the latter deprives the EU organs of a general power to legiferate in this sensitive field […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make law."
      ],
      "id": "en-legiferate-en-verb-Y-b5XEaG",
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, chiefly Europe) To make law."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "legislate"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Europe",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "legiferate"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "legiferates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "legiferating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "legiferated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "legiferated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "legiferate (third-person singular simple present legiferates, present participle legiferating, simple past and past participle legiferated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English verbs",
        "European English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1979, Gaetano Arangio Ruiz, The United Nations Declaration on Friendly Relations and the System of the Sources of International Law, BRILL, page 82",
          "text": "[…] he who possesses power to legiferate a fortiori is entitled to interpret.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, O. Costa de Beauregard, “Relativity and probability: The logic of intersubjectivity”, in Symposium On The Foundations Of Modern Physics 1993, page 155",
          "text": "[…] logic simply cannot legiferate in ignorance of geometric covariance, because its very argumentation is mentally pictured in spacetime.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Silvia Allegrezza, “On Legality in Criminal Matters between Primacy of EU Law and National Constitutional Traditions: A Study of the Taricco Saga”, in The Court of Justice and European Criminal Law: Leading Cases in a Contextual Analysis, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 186",
          "text": "Subsidiarity in criminal law, in fact, can hardly cope with the European subsidiarity, because the latter deprives the EU organs of a general power to legiferate in this sensitive field […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make law."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, chiefly Europe) To make law."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Europe",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "legislate"
    }
  ],
  "word": "legiferate"
}