Vaticanize

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English

Etymology

From Vatican +‎ -ize.

Verb

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

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