prelatize
verbEtymology From prelate + -ize.
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Christianity 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, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 143:
2
Christianity To bring under the influence of prelacy.
- 1859-1890, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England During the Stuart Dynasty Laud was busy with his more important plan of prelatizing the Church of Scotland