ecclesiastify

verb

Etymology: From ecclesiastic + -ify.

1. To make ecclesiastic; To make a part of the church and its rituals.

   “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.”

   “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.”