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legalize, v.|ˈliːgəlaɪz|
[f. legal + -ize.]
1. trans. To make legal or conformable to law; to invest with the authority of law; to authorize, justify, sanction.
a1716South Serm. (1723) VII. 75 The conditions required to legalize such a defence of ourselves and fortunes. 1791Mackintosh Vind. Gallic. Wks. 1846 III. 143 It..could not.. legalise the acts of the body which created it. 1824― Sp. Ho. Com. 1 June ibid. 410 We may now be said annually to legalise military law. 1860Hook Lives Abps. I. i. 2 There was a period in our history..when oppression was legalised. 1884Sir H. Hawkins in Law Times Rep. L. 816/1 The intention of the Legislature to legalise..mere games of skill.
2. To imbue with the spirit of the (Mosaic) law; to pervert in the spirit of legalism. rare.
1774Fletcher Grace & Justice Wks. 1795 IV. 181 What, will you still persist to legalize the gospel?
¶3. intr. To practise as a lawyer. nonce-use.
1855Cornwall 244 Jobson still legalizes in Gray's Inn.
Hence ˈlegaliˌzation, the action of legalizing.
1805W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. III. 286 As soon as he has completed the form of legalization. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. iii. xxxiii. §3 (1876) 389 The legalization of joint stock associations with limited liability. 1862M. Hopkins Hawaii 373 The open encouragement and legalisation of vice. |