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Webster 1913 Edition

federalize

fed′er-al-ize

,

Verb.

T.

[

imp. & p. p.

Federalized

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Federalizing

.]

[Cf. F.

fédéraliser

.]

To unite in compact, as different States; to confederate for political purposes; to unite by or under the Federal Constitution.

Barlow.