transitive. To legalize, authorize.

transitive. To make lawful, to legalize; to authorize by legal enactment. In early use: to give (a person) a legal claim to (something).

transitive. To make lawful or proper in a civil community. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. = legitimatize, v.

transitive. To make lawful, legitimize.

transitive. To make legal or conformable to law; to make authoritative under law; to authorize, justify, sanction. (Now the usual sense.)

transitive. To make legitimate; to serve as a justification for (something); spec. to make (a child) legitimate by legal enactment or otherwise.

To reclassify (an activity) so that it is no longer considered criminal in law; spec. to legalize (a narcotic drug, its possession, or use). (Rarely…