statute

 

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From Middle English statut, from Old French statut, from Late Latin statutum (“a statute”), neuter singular of Latin statutus, past participle of statuō (“I set up, establish”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈstætʃuːt/

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statute (countable and uncountable, plural statutes)

1. Written law, as laid down by the legislature.

• statutory
• statutorily
• statutory rape

• “statute”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “statute”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• tautest

(deprecated template usage) statūte

1. vocative masculine singular of statūtus

• “statute”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers