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a1832 J. Bentham Princ. Judicial Procedure in Wks. (1839) VIII. 144 In the case of a jury, everything said of such a sub-committee is or may be realized: it is everywhere, or may be, and (at any rate to fulfil the professed ends of it) ought to be, an exact sample of that unofficial judicatory, although to the particular purpose in question, officialized.

1884 H. James in Atlantic Monthly Jan. 55/1 His funeral, restricted and officialized, was none the less a magnificent ‘manifestation.’

1897 Spectator 4 Sept. 297/2 An Empire officialised and regulated to death!

1925 S. Banerjea Nation in Making xii. 130 The crowning mandate that was to officialize the Corporation, directing the reduction of the elected members.

1974 Amer. Speech 1971 46 119 Graft is officialized by the Nixon administration.

2001 BOMB Winter 39/1 To work, think, and exist mentally in spaces that are, in a manner of speaking, not ‘officialized’ by the dominant culture.

1850 Sir S. Northcote in Life (1890) I. iii. 90 I should be just as contented if I were set to grind coffee..as when I am farming or officialising.

1871 Brit. Controversialist 176 The suggestions here made have for their object the extension, organization, and officialization—if we may so term it—of public opinion.

1907 Daily Chron. 9 Nov. 4/4 One fails to detect a craving for any such officialisation.

1953 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 47 504 The officialization of privately controlled enterprise at the national level has been paralleled by the privatization of certain public services at the municipal level.

2015 J. E. Petrovic Post-Liberal Approach Lang. Policy in Educ. i. 2 Language officialization,..where the language of the dominant group is made official, would be a policy maintaining the status quo and the linguistic privileges entailed.