Legislative
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; - distinguished from executive: as, a legislative act, a legislative body.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: That branch of government which is responsible for making, or having the power to make, a law or laws.
Example sentence: Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
Legislature
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A governmental body with the power to make, amend and repeal laws.A legislative building.
Example sentence: To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.