sacramentalize

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verb

To make sacramental.

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Meanings

verbsacramentalize (third-person singular simple present sacramentalizes, present participle sacramentalizing, simple past and past participle sacramentalized)

present singular third person sacramentalizes · participle present sacramentalizing · participle past sacramentalized · past sacramentalized

  1. transitiveChristianityTo make sacramental.

    Jack now sought to have their marriage sacramentalized, but the bishop refused.

    2008, Marie A. Conn, C.S. Lewis and Human Suffering: Light Among the Shadows, HiddenSpring, page 18
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    Marriage is the only human relationship that is, or will ever be, sacramentalized.

    2014, John Clark, “A Wedding Toast: Marriage, the Only Sacramentalized Relationship”, in Seton Magazine
  2. transitiveCatholicismTo receive the sacraments of the Catholic Church.

    A majority of American Catholics have been "sacramentalized," but never catechized or evangelized.

    2019, Kathy Schiffer, Sacramentalized But Not Evangelized? Maybe You Just Forgot!, National Catholic Register

Origin

From sacramental + -ize.

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APA

sacramentalize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sacramentalize

MLA

“sacramentalize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sacramentalize. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sacramentalize,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sacramentalize.

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