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Vaticanise

Vaticanise is the alternative form of Vaticanize.

Meaning of Vaticanize

Verb

Vaticanize (third-person singular simple present Vaticanizes, present participle Vaticanizing, simple past and past participle Vaticanized)

  1. (transitive) To make to conform to the religious principles and practices of the Vatican.
    • But we have here no attempt to Vaticanize the Celtic Church.1912, Princeton Theological Review, volume 10, page 148

Forms of Vaticanise

third-person singular presentVaticanises
present participleVaticanising
past participleVaticanised
pastVaticanised

Questions about Vaticanise

What is Vaticanise the alternative form of?
Vaticanise is the alternative form of Vaticanize.

Words near Vaticanise in the dictionary

  1. Vaticanal
  2. Vaticanese
  3. Vaticanian
  4. Vaticanians
  5. Vaticanic
  6. Vaticanise
  7. Vaticanised
  8. Vaticanises
  9. Vaticanising
  10. Vaticanism
  11. Vaticanist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Vaticanise (page history and authors); Vaticanize (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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