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Etymology

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Vatican +‎ -ize

Verb

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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.
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