a. [f. as next + -AL.]
1. Having the power to legislate, acting as a legislator or legislature.
1819. Gen. Hist., in Ann. Reg., 104/2. At a public meeting holden on July 12 … the managers … proposed that the same Sir Charles [Wolseley] should be sent up to parliament as ‘legislatorial attorney and representative of Birmingham.’
1841. De Quincey, Homer, Wks. 1857, VI. 349. Solon, the legislatorial founder of Athens.
1882. Encycl. Brit., XIV. 357. One may imagine a community governed by a dependent legislatorial body or person.
2. Of or pertaining to a legislator or legislation.
1774–5. Bentham, Commonplace Bk., Wks. 1843, X. 76. A System of Rules for the Conversion of Long Sentences into Short Ones, for the Legislatorial Style.
1829. Examiner, 306/2. A capital legislatorial jeu d’esprit.
1833. Fraser’s Mag., VIII. 246. He would have done better to stick to his legislatorial duties.
Hence Legislatorially adv.
1827. Westm. Rev., VII. 30. The judges legislatorially refuse to acknowledge certain rights of the landlords.
