All 3 Uses of
legislature
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- In the growth of the town, however, after some thirty or forty years, the site covered by this rude hovel had become exceedingly desirable in the eyes of a prominent and powerful personage, who asserted plausible claims to the proprietorship of this and a large adjacent tract of land, on the strength of a grant from the legislature.†
Chpt 1legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
- These last, if they ever heard of the Pyncheon title, would have laughed at the idea of any man's asserting a right—on the strength of mouldy parchments, signed with the faded autographs of governors and legislators long dead and forgotten—to the lands which they or their fathers had wrested from the wild hand of nature by their own sturdy toil.†
Chpt 1
- Later, he had engaged in politics, and served a part of two terms in Congress, besides making a considerable figure in both branches of the State legislature.†
Chpt 1 *legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
Definition:
a group made up of government representatives (usually elected) that has the power to create laws