单词 | legalize |
释义 | legalizev. 1. Theology. Now rare. a. transitive. To force (a person or thing) to conform to the Mosaic law or to a comparable system of law; to reduce (the gospel, Christianity, etc.) to law. Cf. legalism n. 1. ΚΠ 1635 D. Dickson Short Explan. Hebrewes 125 They were legalized; that is, straytlie vrged, by the Yoake of the Lawe: wee are Evangelized; that is, smoothlie entreated, vnder the Gospell. 1777 J. W. Fletcher Doctr. Grace & Justice i. 8 What,..Will you still persist to legalize the gospel? 1957 Jrnl. Relig. 37 47/2 What else is wrong with the Apostolic Fathers than precisely their attempt to systematize, legalize, moralize, or institutionalize the living encounter? ΚΠ 1653 C. Sydenham Christian, Sober & Plain Exercitation iii. 26 They having legaliz'd, and returned to look after Jewish Ordinances and works, he tels them, their Ordinances were nothing, their priviledges nothing, being Jew or Greek, but as they were in Christ. 2. transitive. To make legal or conformable to law; to make authoritative under law; to authorize, justify, sanction. (Now the usual sense.) ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > [verb (transitive)] > legalize leala1375 legitimate1596 civilize1643 legitimize1646 justify1651 legalize1652 legitimatize1693 decriminalize1972 1652 W. Sancroft Mod. Policies sig. F4v If he can insinuate the scope of the war to be Legall, a little dawbing will serve to Legallize the circumstances. a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) X. 249 The conditions required to legalize such a defence of ourselves and fortunes. 1791 J. Mackintosh Vindiciæ Gallicæ v. 324 It..could not..legalize the acts of the body which created it. 1824 J. Mackintosh Speech in Commons 1 June in Wks. (1846) III. 410 We may now be said annually to legalise military law. 1860 W. F. Hook Lives Archbishops Canterbury I. i. 2 There was a period in our history..when oppression was legalised. 1884 Sir H. Hawkins in Law Times Rep. 50 816/1 The intention of the Legislature to legalise..mere games of skill. 1926 Times 2 June 15/3 Marshal Pilsudsky..considered his election would legalize his coup d'Etat. 1988 Lat. Amer. Res. Rev. 23 60 In January 1875, the Buenos Aires municipal council legalized female sexual commerce within authorized bordellos. 2011 N.Y. Times 27 June a1 The movement to legalize same-sex marriage is hoping its unexpected victory in New York will revive efforts to legalize gay weddings around the nation. ΚΠ 1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 244 Jobson still legalizes in Gray's Inn. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1635 |
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