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papalise

papalise is the alternative form of papalize.

Meaning of papalize

Verb

papalize (third-person singular simple present papalizes, present participle papalizing, simple past and past participle papalized)

  1. (transitive) To make papal; to introduce papal authority or Roman customs.
  2. (archaic, intransitive) To conform to popery.
    • papalizing is the crime with which he charges all of that denomination1783 April 20, William Cowper, letter to Rev. John Newton

Forms of papalise

third-person singular presentpapalises
present participlepapalising
past participlepapalised
pastpapalised

Questions about papalise

What is papalise the alternative form of?
Papalise is the alternative form of papalize.

Words near papalise in the dictionary

  1. papal supremacy
  2. papalagi
  3. papalagis
  4. Papaleo
  5. Papaleos
  6. papalise
  7. papalised
  8. papalises
  9. papalising
  10. papalism
  11. papalist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: papalise (page history and authors); papalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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