v. [f. FEDERAL a. + -IZE.] a. trans. To make federal, unite in federal union. b. To decentralize; to take from the central authority and hand over to federal bodies in the state, or to federal states in a union.

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1801.  W. Dupré, Neolog. Fr. Dict., 116. Fédéraliser, to federalize; to form confederacies, or factions, as that of the Brissotines, or Girondistes.

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1847.  Craig, Federalize, to unite in compact, as different states; to confederate for political purposes.

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1885.  Pall Mall G., 29 June, 12/1. Advice which may be condensed into one short sentence—Federalize the fleet.

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1885.  Manch. Exam., 6 July, 5/2. We are asked to federalise our institutions.

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1889.  Times, 30 Oct., 8/2. He was not likely to suppose that we could federalize a part of a realm.

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  Hence Federalized, Federalizing ppl. adjs.

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1884.  Pall Mall G., 4 April, 11/2. He established in Australia 300 federalized branches of the National League.

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1889.  Spectator, 9 Nov., 627/2. The federalising revolution even Mr. Morley himself ridicules.

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