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prelatizing

prelatizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about prelatizing

What is prelatizing the present participle and gerund of?
Prelatizing is the present participle and gerund of prelatize.

Words near prelatizing in the dictionary

  1. prelatist
  2. prelatists
  3. prelatize
  4. prelatized
  5. prelatizes
  6. prelatizing
  7. prelatries
  8. prelatry
  9. prelature
  10. prelatures
  11. prelatureship

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