Prēl'a-tīze1, v. t.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. PRELATIZED; p. pr. & vb. n. PRELATIZING.] To bring under the power or influence of prelacy.
Land was busy with his more important plan of prelatizing the church of Scotland. Palfrey.
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Prelatize
Prēl'a-tīze2, v. i.
To uphold or encourage prelacy; to exercise prelatical functions.
He indeed [Cyprian] succeeded into an episcopacy that began then to prelatize. Milton.