"prelatize" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From prelate + -ize.",
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    {
      "form": "prelatizes",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prelatizing",
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        "participle",
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    },
    {
      "form": "prelatized",
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    },
    {
      "form": "prelatized",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "he indeed ſucceeded into an Epiſcopacy that began then to prelatize;",
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        "To uphold or encourage prelacy; to exercise prelatical functions."
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          "prelacy",
          "prelacy"
        ],
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          "prelatical",
          "prelatical"
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        "(intransitive) To uphold or encourage prelacy; to exercise prelatical functions."
      ],
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        {
          "text": "1859-1890, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England During the Stuart Dynasty\nLaud was busy with his more important plan of prelatizing the Church of Scotland"
        }
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        "To bring under the influence of prelacy."
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        "(transitive) To bring under the influence of prelacy."
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  "word": "prelatize"
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  "etymology_text": "From prelate + -ize.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "prelatizes",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prelatizing",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "prelatized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prelatized",
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          "ref": "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:",
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        "To uphold or encourage prelacy; to exercise prelatical functions."
      ],
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        "(intransitive) To uphold or encourage prelacy; to exercise prelatical functions."
      ],
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      ],
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        "To bring under the influence of prelacy."
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        "(transitive) To bring under the influence of prelacy."
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