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prelatize, v.|ˈprɛlətaɪz|
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
†1. intr. To be or become prelatical. Obs. rare.
1641Milton Animadv. Wks. 1851 III. 195 He [Cyprian] indeed succeeded into an Episcopacy that began then to Prelatize.
2. trans. To make prelatical; to bring under prelatic or episcopal government.
a1864Palfrey (W.), Laud was busy with his more important plan of prelatizing the church of Scotland. 1873McDowall Hist. Dumfries xxx. 336 Efforts to prelatise the Church.
Hence ˈprelatizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1641Milton Reform. ii. Wks. 1851 III. 61 We may rather suspect them for some Prelatizing-spirits that admire our Bishopricks, not Episcopacy. 1882T. A. Pope tr. Capecelatro's Life St. P. Neri II. 373 With all this prelatising in the Congregation we are drifting into a slavery the worse that our chains are all of gold. |