Genevate

English

Etymology

Geneva +‎ -ate

Verb

Genevate (third-person singular simple present Genevates, present participle Genevating, simple past and past participle Genevated)

1. To convert to puritanism (as it was practiced in Geneva).
   • 1869 November, Rev. Doctor Gillett, “A Chapter in New England Theological Controversy”, in The Historical Magazine, volume 6, number 5, page 293.:

     Of Orthodox Churches and standards of Orthodox belief, he speaks in a tone more free than might have been anticipated: "Againe, if Orthodox Churches (yea the most Orthodox) are so infallible that our faith must be resolved in part into their commentaries, expositions, &c., how cometh it to passe that some do differ in Church discipline from so many reformed Churches, both from Geneva, Zurich, Scotland, Low Countries, &c. that they neither scotize it with the Scot, nor Genevate it with the zealous town of Geneva, they fall, it may be, under reproof, in not agreeing with, but discording the judgement and practise of the best and reformed and Orthodox Churches in discipline.

   • 1949, American Heritage - Volumes 1-2, page 13:

     Sir Edward was a Puritan who in his youth had been to Geneva to drink at the pure fountains of Puritanism. He had returned to Genevate the church and aid in favoring the Puritan party in Parliament.

   • 1967, Abraham Seldin Eisenstadt, American History: Recent Interpretations - Volume 1, page 38:

     The exiles were eagerly awaiting the day when they might return to England to admonish a new sovereign and to advise how best to put their ideas into effect; they expected the chief seats in a new hierarchy which would "Genevate" the Church of England.