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(Christianity, intransitive) To uphold or encourage prelacy; to exercise prelatical functions..
he indeed ſucceeded into an Epiſcopacy that began then to prelatize;
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
Use prelatize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Prelatize means (Christianity, intransitive) To uphold or encourage prelacy; to exercise prelatical functions..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
he indeed ſucceeded into an Epiſcopacy that began then to prelatize;
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