The Collaborative International Dictionary
Regularize \Reg"u*lar*ize\ (r[e^]g"[-u]*l[~e]r*[imac]z), v. t. To cause to become regular; to regulate. [R.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from regular (adj.) + -ize. Related: Regularized; regularizing.
Wiktionary
vb. To make regular.
WordNet
v. bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations; "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate" [syn: regulate, regularise, order, govern] [ant: deregulate]
make regular or more regular; "regularize the heart beat with a pace maker" [syn: regularise]
Usage examples of "regularize".
The resulting caverns were expanded, regularized into cylindrical shapes, the surface sculpted into a landscape, sealed, then turned into habitable biospheres.
Firstly he regularized the image which the surrounding sensitive cells were supplying to the neural strata, freezing the picture of his body.
Russian instinct, was the first to recognize the value of this terrible cudgel which regardless of the rules of military science destroyed the French, and to him belongs the credit for taking the first step toward regularizing this method of warfare.
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.
Natural caves had been enlarged and regularized to form compartmentalized buildings with ladders on the outside linking their terraces the way the streets linked the buildings on flatter ground.
Vaguely he realized that Marguerida was using her own heartbeat to regularize his, that she was using her own matrix to rechannel his energy.
Ac Sibylline books as regularized by Augustus, I can interpret the verses with some confidence.
In order that your position may be regularized as soon as possible, you must secure Forms H and Q from the British Currency Legitimization Authority, and obtain permission to export one cent (1ยข) in Canadian currency to us.
His response to marriage had been to begin an affair, and his response to the difficulty of maintaining a clandestine relationship had been to initiate another one, and when both his mistresses insisted that he regularize his life, when they both insisted on occupying pole position on the grid of his personal auto rally, he at once managed to find room for yet another woman in his noisy, overcrowded bed.
Recognizing a good thing when I saw one I had lost no time in making my presence known and in March 1978 we regularized matters before the local registrar and became Mr.
I ordered my medulla to calm down and start regularizing my breathing, and both the fear and its efluvium began to subside.
In either case, it's simply a matter of mastering the electro-chemical interface: regularizing chains of association, facilitating neural feedback patterns, reinforcing the appropriate reentrant connections.
I am also grateful to Moira Whalon for help in regularizing the chronology of the narrative.