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Vaticanize

Vaticanize verb: to make to conform to the religious principles and practices of the Vatican.

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 Vaticanize

third-person singular presentVaticanizes
present participleVaticanizing
past participleVaticanized
pastVaticanized

Origin of Vaticanize

From Vatican + -ize.

Questions about Vaticanize

What does Vaticanize mean?
Vaticanize means to make to conform to the religious principles and practices of the Vatican.
What part of speech is Vaticanize?
Vaticanize is a verb.
What is the past tense of Vaticanize?
The past tense of Vaticanize is Vaticanized.

Words near Vaticanize in the dictionary

  1. Vaticanising
  2. Vaticanism
  3. Vaticanist
  4. Vaticanists
  5. Vaticanization
  6. Vaticanize
  7. Vaticanized
  8. Vaticanizes
  9. Vaticanizing
  10. vaticanol
  11. Vaticanologist

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