legislator

Definition

Someone who creates or enacts laws.

Etymology

From Latin lēgislātor.

Example Sentences

• "Give the children of the poor that portion of education which will enable them to know their own resources; which will cultivate in them an onward-looking hope, and give them rational amusement in their leisure hours: this, and this only, will work out that moral revolution, which is the legislator's noblest purpose."