ecclesiastify
ecclesiastify verb: to make ecclesiastic; To make a part of the church and its rituals.
Verb
ecclesiastify (third-person singular simple present ecclesiastifies, present participle ecclesiastifying, simple past and past participle ecclesiastified)
- To make ecclesiastic; To make a part of the church and its rituals.
- With this end in view, I at various times forced myself to stop writing and thinking on these abstruse subjects, and made the effort again to ecclesiastify myself and take a church pastorate, or to enter into some business pursuit.1907, John Fount Martin, Two in One
- To begin with it sees all marriages in the light of the role God has given them and in the light of God's blessing and cannot therefore "ecclesiastify" those involving Christians, rurn them into a special affair of the Church.1975, Johannes Feiner, Lukas Vischer, The common catechism: a book of Christian faith, page 619
Forms of ecclesiastify
| third-person singular present | ecclesiastifies |
|---|---|
| present participle | ecclesiastifying |
| past participle | ecclesiastified |
| past | ecclesiastified |
Origin of ecclesiastify
From ecclesiastic + -ify.
Questions about ecclesiastify
- What does ecclesiastify mean?
- Ecclesiastify means to make ecclesiastic; To make a part of the church and its rituals.
- What part of speech is ecclesiastify?
- Ecclesiastify is a verb.
- What is the past tense of ecclesiastify?
- The past tense of ecclesiastify is ecclesiastified.
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