liberalizedadj.

1789 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire I. 199 No other authority than my own sight could..have induced me to believe, that an evil so great..could, in these enlightened and liberalized times, have existed in the rural economy of this country.

1820 J. Foster Ess. Evils Pop. Ignorance 158 Liberalized feeling and deportment.

1824 Ann. Reg. 40 The Irish clergy,..an educated, liberalized, well-conducted order of men.

1884 Christian Commonw. 24 Jan. 347/2 Notions that it [sc. Sunday] is but a relaxed or liberalised Jewish Sabbath.

1940 G. F.-H. Berkeley & J. Berkeley Italy in Making III. i. 16 Over these Liberalised governments Metternich could maintain his domination only indirectly, by means of his ambassadors.

1978 D. Martin in S. Giner & M. S. Archer Contemp. Europe ix. 263 Friesland with its orthodox Calvinists split off from the liberalised Dutch Reformed Church.

2001 B. W. Wright Comic Bk. Nation (2003) viii. 240 Creators still exercised restraint, but the liberalized code produced some immediate changes.

1829 Foreign Q. Rev. Jan. 404 Since Mexico has thrown off the Spanish yoke, the liberalised system of trade in Cuba has rendered these supplies..unnecessary.

1865 Examiner 18 Feb. 98/2 In the other great sections of the Austrian Empire..the impatience for a liberalized tariff has long been made eagerly manifest.

1911 La Follette's Weekly Mag. 4 Feb. 9/3 An enlarged and liberalized trade between Canada and the United States is promised.

1955 Times 6 Aug. 6/3 The French Government has agreed to the German request that the ‘liberalized’ sector of French trade with the O.E.E.C. countries shall be restored.

2007 A. A. Allawi Occup. of Iraq x. 199 The CPA's proposed panoply of radical economic measures made their emergence as linchpins of the new, liberalised economy nearly certain.