legislate
verb (used without object)
to exercise the function of legislation; make or enact laws.
were legislating
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past progressiveof legislate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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There were some others who desired, while they were legislating on this subject, that they should also give bounty lands to the volunteers of the War of 1812.
From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858 by Abraham Lincoln
And the wise men of the nation—as, Tourgee's Fool ironically names them—thought they were legislating for the best; thought they were doing their duty.
From Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South by Timothy Thomas Fortune
I have said that we were legislating in the dark.
From Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question by Edwin Lawrence Godkin
The monarchy had been treasonably overturned; the men of the Revolution of September were legislating in Madrid.
From The Torrent Entre Naranjos by Isaac Goldberg
