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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
legalize
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
court
▪ Y., referring to the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.
marriage
▪ In a test case, the state of Hawaii may become the first to legalize gay marriage, next year.
party
▪ A bill formally legalizing the new parties was not expected to be enacted before April.
▪ The National People's Assembly had legalized political parties on March 26.
suicide
▪ Poenisch is leading a grass-roots campaign to persuade Michigan voters to legalize doctor-assisted suicide.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Denmark recently legalized marriage between gay couples.
▪ Gambling has recently been legalized in three towns in Colorado.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Eight further political parties were formally legalized on Feb. 5 and other parties were encouraged to apply for registration.
▪ He introduced a bill to legalize abortion two years before Roe v. Wade.
▪ Legislation to legalize casino gambling could be introduced in Congress next fall.
▪ Short of legalizing abortion, lives could be saved if doctors were better trained to deal with septic or incomplete abortions.
▪ The measure would have legalized slot machines in Palm Springs and allowed voters to approve other casinos later.
▪ Uniate congregations had been legalized on Dec. 1, 1989, and 600 parishes had registered by January 1990.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Legalize

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
legalize

1716, from legal + -ize. Related: Legalized; legalizing.

Wiktionary
legalize

vb. (context American spelling English) (alternative spelling of legalise English)

WordNet
legalize

v. make legal; "Marijuana should be legalized" [syn: legalise, decriminalize, decriminalise, legitimize, legitimise, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimatise] [ant: outlaw, outlaw, outlaw, outlaw]

Usage examples of "legalize".

Department of Public Health cited the Massachusetts state Equal Rights Amendment as one authority for the decision to legalize same-sex marriages.

Lord Palmerston to declare one, or for me to legalize one forced on us.

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.

This is supposed to be an argument for legalizing another drug like them?

But Prohibition is one of the strongest arguments against legalizing marijuana.

Senate many moons to realize that neither of you has any intention of disbanding his army, but that both of you are to some extent legalizing your positions.

The second Florida supreme court decision throwing out the 2000 presidential election count was 4 to 3, and the Massachusetts court decision in Goodridge legalizing same-sex marriage was also 4 to 3.

An act had been passed in 1813, legalizing the foundation of schools and chapels for the benefit of the Unitarians, and placing them upon the same footing as other Protestant dissenters.

How, if not wisdom and authority, but turbulence and low vice are to exalt to senatorships miscreants reeking with the odors and pollution of the hell, the prize-ring, the brothel, and the stock-exchange, where gambling is legalized and rascality is laudable?

In the last case, it would have to legalize the Iraqi oil terminal at Abu Plus, which is currently not regulated by the United Nations and so is where most of the oil smuggled in the Gulf comes from.