Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See illegalize.

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  • verb British Alternative spelling of illegalize.

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  • verb declare illegal; outlaw

Etymologies

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illegal +‎ -ise

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Examples

  • The purpose of these lies is to win moral support for attempts to illegalise and curtail perfectly acceptable political practices.

    Keynote Address of Comrade Nelson R Mandela, Deputy President of the ANC, to the ANC National Consultative Conference, 14-16 December 1990 1990

  • Government preparing to outline the specifics of new legislation that will illegalise violent games Just a month after the proposals were first outlined in full, ...

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2010

  • So we cannot illegalise abortion altogether, and we cannot set up fixed rules as some cases may be too much specific.

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

  • So we cannot illegalise abortion altogether, and we cannot set up fixed rules as some cases may be too much specific.

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

  • So we cannot illegalise abortion altogether, and we cannot set up fixed rules as some cases may be too much specific.

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

  • Switzerland passes violent games ban - "Government preparing to outline the specifics of new legislation that will illegalise violent games" in one word, idiotic! have ever heard how forbidden fruit tastes better, no ban will ever solve such issues! the swiss socialist party launched this, and yet they wonder why no young people want to join their party anymore?

    piece 0 plastic - the revolution will be blogged Jan Zup[ping]er 2010

  • It seems to be disguised as "Privacy Group" and it tried to change the law so as to illegalise Google's existing algorithms.

    Boycott Novell - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • To disengage from our current regime of hostage taking, which excludes us from the process legitimacy, or threatens to illegalise us, on the basis of «Fortress Europe».

    de.indymedia.org newswire 2008

  • To disengage from our current regime of hostage taking, which excludes us from the process legitimacy, or threatens to illegalise us, on the basis of «Fortress Europe».

    de.indymedia.org newswire 2008

  • To disengage from our current regime of hostage taking, which excludes us from the process legitimacy, or threatens to illegalise us, on the basis of «Fortress Europe».

    de.indymedia.org newswire 2008

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