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English
Etymology
From illegal + -ize or il- + legalize.
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illegalize (third-person singular simple present illegalizes, present participle illegalizing, simple past and past participle illegalized)
- To make illegal; to prohibit by law, to criminalize.
2000, Lois Bibbings, Donald Nicolson, Feminist Perspectives on Criminal Law, page 111:Only as recently as 1991 was the rape by a husband of his wife illegalised.
2002, David Evans, A History of Nature Conservation in Britain, page 47:A 1908 Act illegalised the teagle, a particularly nasty snare of baited hooks joined by strings which was put out to attract birds during hard weather.
2013, A Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley, published 2014, page 41:Although slavery had been illegalized by 1870, fundamental prejudice could not be legislated away.
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