[f. LAW sb.1 + MAKER.] One who makes laws; a lawgiver, legislator.
c. 1380. Antecrist, in Todd, 3 Treat. Wyclif, 115. David seiþ Lord sett þou a lawe maker upon hem.
a. 1540. Barnes, Wks. (1573), 207. As though I had condempned the lawemaker, lawe, and execution thereof.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, xxv. 381. The Scepter shall not be taken from Iuda, nor the Lawmaker from betweene her feete vntill Silo come.
1623. Massinger, Bondman, IV. ii. Wise lawmakers From each well governed private house derived The perfect model of a commonwealth.
1699. Bentley, Phal., 335. Aristotle informs us, that the best and most of the Law-makers were Men of the middle Rank.
1833. Ht. Martineau, Tale of Tyne, v. 94. The practice of these lawmakers agreed with their principle.
1881. Times, 5 Feb., 9/3. No laws work uninterruptedly without the supervision of the lawmaker.
