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prelatise

prelatise is the alternative form of prelatize.

Meaning of prelatize

Verb

prelatize (third-person singular simple present prelatizes, present participle prelatizing, simple past and past participle prelatized)

  1. (intransitive) To uphold or encourage prelacy; to exercise prelatical functions.
    • he indeed ſucceeded into an Epiſcopacy that began then to prelatize;1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […]...
  2. (transitive) To bring under the influence of prelacy.
    • Laud was busy with his more important plan of prelatizing the Church of Scotland1859-1890, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England During the Stuart Dynasty

Forms of prelatise

third-person singular presentprelatises
present participleprelatising
past participleprelatised
pastprelatised

Questions about prelatise

What is prelatise the alternative form of?
Prelatise is the alternative form of prelatize.

Words near prelatise in the dictionary

  1. prelatically
  2. prelatick
  3. prelating
  4. prelation
  5. prelations
  6. prelatise
  7. prelatised
  8. prelatises
  9. prelatish
  10. prelatising
  11. prelatism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prelatise (page history and authors); prelatize (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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