1) Adjudge 2) Declare 3) Declare or make legally valid 4) Formalise 5) Hold 6) Make formal or official 7) To act with formality 8) To shape 1) Cosign 2) Formalise 3) Ratify 4) Ritualise 5) Ritualize 6) Validate 
• (v. i.) To affect formality. • (v. t.) To render formal. • (v. t.) To give form, or a certain form, to; to model.
Form'al·ize (fôrm' a l*īz) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Formalized ; present participle & verbal noun Formalizing .] 1. To give form, or a certain form, to; to model. [ R.] 2. To render fo...Form'al·ize intransitive verb To affect formality. [ Obsolete] ales. 
[v] - make formal or official
formalise verb make formal or official; `We formalized the appointment and gave him a title`
to make formal, esp. for the sake of official or authorized acceptance: to formalize an understanding by drawing up a legal contract. · to give a definite form or shape to. · to state or restate (the rules or implied rules of a grammar or the like) in symbolic form.