Vaticanize

English

Etymology

Vatican +‎ -ize

Verb

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.

Related terms

• Vaticanization