ETYMOLOGY
from Latin legifer (law-giving); (from legi-, lex (law) + -fer (bearing, bringing)) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“… When both joynd issue to Entertaine the King
(Your Royall Grandfather of blessed memory)
Then did the issues of the Schollars braine
Put Ignoramus on’s Legiferous straine …”
From: Ignoramus. Or, The Academical Lawyer
By Ferdinando Parkhurst, 1662
in The Prologues and Epilogues of the Restoration 1660-1700
By Pierre Danchin, 1981
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