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prelatize en · VERB

Etymology

From prelate + -ize.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To uphold or encourage prelacy; to exercise prelatical functions.
   • he indeed ſucceeded into an Epiſcopacy that began then to prelatize; 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 143:
2. (transitive) To bring under the influence of prelacy.
   • 1859-1890, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England During the Stuart Dynasty Laud was busy with his more important plan of prelatizing the Church of Scotland

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