Legalized

ppl. a. [f. LEGALIZE + -ED¹.]

  1.  Made legal, sanctioned by law. Of a wife: Legally married.

1788.  H. Walpole, Remin., ii. 20. The extreme outward devotion of the duchess … seems to announce a legalized wife.

1806.  Weekly Polit. Rev., 27 Dec., 947. The recruiting service, this legalized crimping.

1828.  Sewell, Oxford Prize Ess., 2. Legalized facilities for divulging the property and resources of individuals.

1878.  Dowden, Stud. Lit., 332. The Church remained in the legalised servitude to which Napoleon had reduced it.

  2.  Imbued with the legal spirit.

1818.  Scott, Hrt. Midl., ix. The doctrines of a legalised formalist, such as Saddletree.