ecclesiastify

English

Etymology

ecclesiastic +‎ -ify

Verb

ecclesiastify (third-person singular simple present ecclesiastifies, present participle ecclesiastifying, simple past and past participle ecclesiastified)

1. To make ecclesiastic; To make a part of the church and its rituals.
   • 1907, John Fount Martin, Two in One:

     With this end in view, I at various times forced myself to stop writing and thinking on these abstruse subjects, and made the effort again to ecclesiastify myself and take a church pastorate, or to enter into some business pursuit.

   • 1975, Johannes Feiner, Lukas Vischer, The common catechism: a book of Christian faith, page 619:

     To begin with it sees all marriages in the light of the role God has given them and in the light of God's blessing and cannot therefore "ecclesiastify" those involving Christians, rurn them into a special affair of the Church.

   • 2000, Matthew Innes, State and Society in the Early Middle Ages, →ISBN:

     Funerary feasting remained a central practice, ecclesiastified by Ercanfrida.