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English
Etymology
From prelate + -ize.
Verb
prelatize (third-person singular simple present prelatizes, present participle prelatizing, simple past and past participle prelatized)
- (intransitive) To uphold or encourage prelacy; to exercise prelatical functions.
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:he indeed ſucceeded into an Epiſcopacy that began then to prelatize;
- (transitive) 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