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preconizes

preconizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of preconize.

Meaning of preconize

Verb

preconize (third-person singular simple present preconizes, present participle preconizing, simple past and past participle preconized)

  1. To proclaim in public; especially (of the Pope) to announce the appointment of a bishop.
    • The song grew louder, with more insistent, magical tones, surging and falling in unearthly modulations, the very speech of incantation; and the drum beat madly, and the pipe shrilled to a scream, summoning all to issue forth, to leave their peaceful hearths; for a strange rite was preconized in...1922, Arthur Machen, The House of Souls

Questions about preconizes

What is preconizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Preconizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of preconize.

Words near preconizes in the dictionary

  1. preconizations
  2. preconize
  3. preconized
  4. preconizer
  5. preconizers
  6. preconizes
  7. preconizing
  8. preconjugated
  9. preconnect
  10. preconnected
  11. preconnecting

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