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ecclesiastifying

ecclesiastifying is the present participle and gerund of ecclesiastify.

Meaning of ecclesiastify

Verb

ecclesiastify (third-person singular simple present ecclesiastifies, present participle ecclesiastifying, simple past and past participle ecclesiastified)

  1. 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

Questions about ecclesiastifying

What is ecclesiastifying the present participle and gerund of?
Ecclesiastifying is the present participle and gerund of ecclesiastify.

Words near ecclesiastifying in the dictionary

  1. ecclesiastics
  2. Ecclesiasticus
  3. ecclesiastified
  4. ecclesiastifies
  5. ecclesiastify
  6. ecclesiastifying
  7. ecclesiasts
  8. ecclesio-
  9. ecclesioclastic
  10. ecclesiocracies
  11. ecclesiocracy

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