illegalize

present singular third person illegalizes · participle present illegalizing · participle past illegalized · past illegalized · alternative illegalise

1. To make illegal; to prohibit by law, to criminalize.First known use 19th c.

   Only as recently as 1991 was the rape by a husband of his wife illegalised.

   2000, Lois Bibbings, Donald Nicolson, Feminist Perspectives on Criminal Law, page 111

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   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.

   2002, David Evans, A History of Nature Conservation in Britain, page 47

   Although slavery had been illegalized by 1870, fundamental prejudice could not be legislated away.

   2013, A Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley, published 2014, page 41