Definition of "officialized" [officialized]

• Simple past tense and past participle of officialize. (verb)

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• "Then, re Richard Land's position that waterboarding is torture and torture is immoral practice during intelligence-gathering, what will be his position as to whether Bush Administration officials who "officialized" torture should be prosecuted?"
• "The main difference is it was "officialized" in 1913 and made into a permanent structure that operated 24/7 rather than in crisis as it did in 1907, 1893, 1873 ete ete when a major panic started."
• "We have finally discovered the first good reason known to humankind to resurrect debate over Quebec's formal or, as Mr Ignatieff would have it, "officialized" status in the constitution."