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Legalized

Legalize \Le"gal*ize\ (l[=e]"gal*[imac]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Legalized (-[imac]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Legalizing (-[imac]`z[i^]ng).] [Cf. F. l['e]galiser.]

  1. To make legal.

  2. (Theol.) To interpret or apply in a legal spirit.

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legalized

vb. (en-past of: legalize)

Usage examples of "legalized".

If Crassus could blackmail the Conscript Fathers into a command legalized by the People, then what hope did the Conscript Fathers have of withstanding Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus?

And it was natural to consider imported blacks as slaves, even if the institution of slavery would not be regularized and legalized for several decades.

It knows nothing of differences by descent, or opinions, of favored classes, or legalized religion, or the political power of property.

This is the same Justice Kennedy who upheld legalized abortion in Planned Parenthood v.

Library of Congress in 1988, revealed that the justices were shamelessly plotting with each other to achieve the predetermined result of legalized abortion.

Today, legalized abortion is the law of the land because the Supreme Court decided in 1973 that its recently created constitutional right to privacy also included a new constitutional right to abortion.