Formulate vs Legislate - What's the difference?
formulate | legislate |
To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
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To pass laws (including the amending or repeal of existing laws).
As verbs the difference between formulate and legislate
is that formulate is to reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression while legislate is to pass laws (including the amending or repeal of existing laws).formulate
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
- Another source of evidence supporting the conclusion that children learn language by formulating a set of rules comes from the errors'' that they produce. A case in point are overgeneralized past tense forms like ''comed'', ''goed'', ''seed'', ''buyed'', ''bringed , etc. frequently used by young children. [...]
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Verb
(en-verb)- ''If they can't get people to do the right thing by talking then they will try to legislate it, then they can try to enforce the statutes.