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Of or pertaining to a legislator or legislature.

The office of a legislator. Halifax.

A woman who makes laws. Shaftesbury.

body of persons in a state or kingdom invested with power to make and repeal laws; a legislative body. Without the concurrent consent of all three parts of the legislature, no law is, or can be, made. Sir M. Hale.

To translate erroneously.

Wrong translation.

To translate anew; especially, to translate back into the original language.

Any isopod crustacean of the genus Ligia.

Capable of being translated, or rendered into another language.

To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree. [Archaic] Dryden. In the chapel of St. Catharine of Sienna, they show her head- the rest of her body being translated to Rome. Evelyn.

The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop.

Metaphorical; tralatitious; also, foreign; exotic. [Obs.] Evelyn.

tropical; figurative; as, a translative sense. [R.] Puttenham.

One who translates; esp., one who renders into another language; one who expresses the sense of words in one language by equivalent words in another.

The office or dignity of a translator.

Serving to translate; transferring. [R.] Arbuthnot.

A woman who translates.

See Legislature, Austria, Prussia.

The result of public deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress.

, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day.