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(US, colloquial) Clipping of legislature. examples
third-person singular simple present leges, present participle leging, simple past and past participle leged
(obsolete) To allege; to assert. quotations
Not onely he legeth his mercy to bynde his reason, but also his wysdome.
1508, John Fisher, Treatise concernynge ... the seven penytencyall Psalms
To reson faste, and ledge auctoritie.
c. 1360, Geoffrey Chaucer, Court of Love
(UK, Ireland, slang) A legend; colloquially used to describe a person who is held in high regard.