verb
definition
To make legal or permit under law. Either by decriminalising something that has been illegal or by specifically permitting it.
example
There is a debate whether or not to legalise some of the softer drugs.
Examples of legalize in a Sentence
For years, there has been an argument to legalize marijuana for medical purposes.
The dangers of introducing laws to legalize euthanasia are very real ones.
We should follow the Dutch example and legalize prostitution.
Right to Life - petitions to fight against the campaign to legalize passive euthanasia.
On 19th December 2000 the House of Commons became the first legislature in the world to vote explicitly to legalize human cloning.
They made her the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit seeking to legalize abortion.
The call came on Friday in response to the introduction of a new Bill by Lord Joffe to legalize physician-assisted suicide.
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The tactlessness of Charles, the rapacity of his generals, the barbarity of his mercenaries, his refusal to legalize his position by summoning the Polish diet, his negotiations for the partition of the very state he affected to befriend, awoke the long slumbering public spirit of the country.
Last Monday in the House of Lords four Anglican bishops voted for the government 's bill to legalize homosexual sex for 16 year olds.
Jack, who is chairman of the Norwich branch of the Campaign to legalize cannabis Internationally, believe cannabis is not a drug.
The main fear was that the Bill would legalize euthanasia by omission.
If the Ministry's plans for hygienic control succeed, it will effectively legalize the dog meat market.
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There was no other way but to legalize the new faith in Germany, but only those were to be tolerated who accepted the Augsburg Confession.
Formally to legalize the minimum enjoined by the rubrics of 1549 would, on the other hand, offend the "Protestant" section of the Church, without reconciling those who would be content with nothing short of the Catholic maximum.
To legalize his arbitrary acts Duke John dared to summon the estates together, after he had issued stringent orders to the sheriffs to exclude his enemies and return his friends when the members for the Commons were chosen.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria had long been anxious to legalize his position by a reconciliation, and as soon as he got rid of Stamboloff he made advances to the Russian government.
He packed the privy council, the army and the universities with Catholics, and tried to legalize the exercise of their religion by an utterly unconstitutional Declaration of Indulgence.
But if it is a question of derogating from the common law, the authority of the Holy See must intervene to legalize these derogations.