Legalize: 3 entries found.

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legalization (n.)(https://www.etymonline.com/word/legalization#etymonline_v_41790) 1805, noun of action from legalize.(https://www.etymonline.com/word/legalize?ref=etymonline_crossreference) Related entries & more(https://www.etymonline.com/word/legalization#etymonline_v_41790) legalise (v.)(https://www.etymonline.com/word/legalise#etymonline_v_51866) chiefly British English spelling of legalize;(https://www.etymonline.com/word/legalize?ref=etymonline_crossreference) for suffix, see -ize.(https://www.etymonline.com/word/-ize?ref=etymonline_crossreference) Related: Legalisation; legalised; legalising. Related entries & more(https://www.etymonline.com/word/legalise#etymonline_v_51866) Entries linking to legalise legalize (v.) (https://www.etymonline.com/word/legalize#etymonline_v_30740)1716, from legal (https://www.etymonline.com/word/legal?ref=etymonline_crossreference)+ -ize.(https://www.etymonline.com/word/-ize?ref=etymonline_crossreference) Related: Legalized; legalizing. -ize (https://www.etymonline.com/word/-ize#etymonline_v_25713)word-forming element used to make verbs, Middle English -isen, from Old French -iser/-izer, from Late Latin -izare, from Greek -izein, a verb-forming element denoting the doing of the noun or adjective to which it is attached. The variation of -ize and -ise began in Old French and Middle English, perhaps aided by a few words (such as surprise, see below) where the ending is French or Latin, not Greek. With the classical revival, English partially reverted to the correct Greek -z- spelling from late 16c. But the 1694 edition of the authoritative French Academy dictionary standardized the spellings as -s-, which influenced English. In Britain, despite the opposition to it (at least formerly) of OED, Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Times of London, and Fowler, -ise remains dominant. Fowler thinks this is to avoid the difficulty of remembering the short list of common words not from Greek which must be spelled with an -s- (such as advertise,(https://www.etymonline.com/word/advertise?ref=etymonline_crossreference) devise,(https://www.etymonline.com/word/devise?ref=etymonline_crossreference) surprise)(https://www.etymonline.com/word/surprise?ref=etymonline_crossreference). American English has always favored -ize. The spelling variation involves about 200 English verbs. legalize (v.)(https://www.etymonline.com/word/legalize#etymonline_v_30740) 1716, from legal (https://www.etymonline.com/word/legal?ref=etymonline_crossreference)+ -ize.(https://www.etymonline.com/word/-ize?ref=etymonline_crossreference) Related: Legalized; legalizing. Related entries & more(https://www.etymonline.com/word/legalize#etymonline_v_30740) -ize word-forming element used to make verbs, Middle English -isen, from Old French -iser/-izer, from Late Latin -izare, from Greek -izein, a verb-forming element denoting the doing of the noun or adjective to which it is attached. The variation of -ize and -ise began in Old French and Middle English, perhaps aided by a few words (such as surprise, see below) where the ending is French or Latin, not Greek. With the classical revival, English partially reverted to the correct Greek -z- spelling from late 16c. But the 1694 edition of the authoritative French Academy dictionary standardized the spellings as -s-, which influenced English. In Britain, despite the opposition to it (at least formerly) of OED, Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Times of London, and Fowler, -ise remains dominant. Fowler thinks this is to avoid the difficulty of remembering the short list of common words not from Greek which must be spelled with an -s- (such as advertise,(https://www.etymonline.com/word/advertise?ref=etymonline_crossreference) devise,(https://www.etymonline.com/word/devise?ref=etymonline_crossreference) surprise)(https://www.etymonline.com/word/surprise?ref=etymonline_crossreference). American English has always favored -ize. The spelling variation involves about 200 English verbs. Entries linking to -izeadvertise (v.) (https://www.etymonline.com/word/advertise#etymonline_v_5164)early 15c., advertisen, "to take notice of" (a sense now obsolete), from Old French advertiss-, present-participle stem of advertir (earlier avertir) "make aware, call attention, remark; turn, turn to" (12c.), from Latin advertere "to direct one's attention to; give heed," literally "to turn toward," from ad "to, toward" (see ad-)(https://www.etymonline.com/word/ad-?ref=etymonline_crossreference) + vertere "to turn" (see versus)(https://www.etymonline.com/word/versus?ref=etymonline_crossreference). The transitive sense of "give notice to others, inform, warn; make clear or manifest" (mid-15c.) is by influence of advertisement;(https://www.etymonline.com/word/advertisement?ref=etymonline_crossreference) the specific commercial meaning "call attention to goods for sale, rewards, etc." emerged by late 18c. Compare advert (https://www.etymonline.com/word/advert?ref=etymonline_crossreference#etymonline_v_40677)(v.) "turn (someone's) attention to." Related: Advertised;(https://www.etymonline.com/word/Advertised?ref=etymonline_crossreference) advertising. devise (v.) (https://www.etymonline.com/word/devise#etymonline_v_8487)early 13c., devisen, "to form, fashion;" c. 1300, "to plan, contrive, think or study out, elaborate in the mind," from Old French deviser "dispose in portions, arrange, plan, contrive" (in Modern French, "to chat, gossip"), from Vulgar Latin *divisare, frequentative of Latin dividere "to divide" (see divide (https://www.etymonline.com/word/divide?ref=etymonline_crossreference#etymonline_v_11546)(v.)). Sense of "give, assign, or transmit by will" is from late 14c. in English, from Old French, via the notion of "to arrange a division." As a noun, "act of bequeathing by will" (1540s), also "a will or testament." Compare device.(https://www.etymonline.com/word/device?ref=etymonline_crossreference) Related: Devised; devising. also be being