PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. English legislation is recorded by the seventeenth century, while Etymonline dates legislate to 1805 as a back-formation from legislation or legislator.
/ˌlɛdʒɪˈsleɪʃən/ · noun
The making of laws or laws collectively; from French and Late Latin legislatio, a law-proposing or law-bearing formation.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Shows the English noun centuries before the reported verb back-formation.
First Known Use: 1606Dates legislation to the 1650s and legislate to 1805 as a back-formation.
Headword and linked legislate historyThe graph runs from the Latin and French noun family toward English, not backward from the later verb.