Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Legific \Le*gif"ic\ (l[-e]*j[i^]f"[i^]k), a. [L. lex, legis, law
   + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See {-fy}.]
   Of or pertaining to making laws.

         Practically, in many cases, authority or legific
         competence has begun in bare power.      --J. Grote.