单词 | legalized |
释义 | legalizedadj. 1. a. Made legal, sanctioned by law. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > [adjective] > rendering legal > legalized authorized1480 legitimated1598 legalized1775 1775 ‘Layman’ Strictures on Churches of Rome, Eng. & Scotl. 174 Such legalized encroachments on the moral independence of mankind. 1806 Weekly Polit. Rev. 27 Dec. 947 The recruiting service, this legalized crimping. 1828 W. Sewell Oxf. Prize Ess. 2 Legalized facilities for divulging the property and resources of individuals. 1878 E. Dowden Stud. Lit. 332 The Church remained in the legalised servitude to which Napoleon had reduced it. 1928 Irish Times 9 May 8/5 We hope..that the Government will take early steps to check the now legalised prevalence of..ruinous gambling among the working classes. 1979 Guardian 19 Mar. 12/4 It is an undiscriminating, counterproductive and shortsighted policy of legalised thuggery. 2013 Sunday Times 24 Mar. 13 The state has dipped its fingers into private pension funds.., a more subtle type of legalised theft of after-tax savings. b. Of a husband or wife: legally married; of a child: (made) legitimate. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > [adjective] > rendering legal > legalized > of a person legitimec1400 legalized1788 legitimatized1791 1788 H. Walpole Reminiscences (1924) ii. 20 The extreme outward devotion of the duchess..seems to announce a legalized wife. 1870 ‘E. Kirk’ Up Broadway ii. 219 As a legalized husband,..he might own and do as he pleased with the wife who was sold to him. 1875 M. Clarke His Nat. Life (London ed.) II. iii. iii. 113 The ex-valet, who never liked his legalized son, was at first for turning him out of doors. 1920 M. Jastrow & A. Clay in Yale Oriental Series 4 iii. 81 A man could in addition to the wife recognized as the legalized spouse take a concubine. 2011 M. Umbarger Harp Song 52 He [sc. Robert Burns] was waiting to receive Jean Armour as his legalized wife. 2. Imbued with the spirit of (esp. Mosaic) law. Cf. legalism n. 1. ΚΠ 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ix, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 257 The doctrines of a legalised formalist, such as Saddletree. 1859 Eclectic Rev. Jan. 567 St. Francis had evangelized and revived religion by his great legalized heresy and reform. 1912 Studies: Irish Q. Rev. 1 290 His lot was cast in the midst of legalised Judaism. He had to weigh the question of the Temple and the Law. 2006 Church Hist. 75 511 An overly legalized soteriology had precipitated a pandemic of religious troubles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1775 |
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