Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To institute formally as cardinal.
- To attach corporately or as a cardinal part, as a priest to a particular church.
- A perversion of incarnate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
raise someone to the rank ofcardinal - verb To enroll someone as a
priest of a particular church
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Examples
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First, Father David Jones O Praem is attempting to incardinate into the diocese as a hermit within the Praemonstratentian family at the invitation of the Bishop of Meath, Mgr Michael Smith.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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The Society, Mr. Haley, does not find the origin of the state of necessity in the unwillingness of bishops to incardinate its priests; it finds the origin in the state of the Church following the implementation and/or misimplementation of Vatican II.
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Three or four bishops did incardinate them before the Society was suppressed in 1975.
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This would include but not be limited to the thirty-some societies and orders so far approved by Rome; it would , of course, enable its new ordinary to incardinate secular priests as well; it would also be able to reconcile existing unaffiliated churches.
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It's not the refusal to incardinate Society priests.
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Mr. Haley wrote: "Exactly, they are unwilling to incardinate the Society's priests because of the misimplementation of Vatican II."
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Exactly, they are unwilling to incardinate the Society's priests because of the misimplementation of Vatican II.
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The Society, Mr. Haley, does not find the origin of the state of necessity in the unwillingness of bishops to incardinate its priests; it finds the origin in the state of the Church following the implementation and/or misimplementation of Vatican II.
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First, Father David Jones O Praem is attempting to incardinate into the diocese as a hermit within the Praemonstratentian family at the invitation of the Bishop of Meath, Mgr Michael Smith.
The Situation of the Classical Roman Rite in Ireland, two years after Summorum Pontificum 2009
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Sir And. The counts gentleman, one Cesario: we took him for a coward, but hes the very devil incardinate.
jpmaher commented on the word incardinate
In regard to the Catholic clergy, "Incardinate" is not a cacography of "incarnate". It means to promote a cleric to the rank of cardinal. “Key” men in the RC hierarchy are metaphorically "hinge-men". Although "cardines" is usually translated as ‘hinges’, the ancient "cardo" (plural "cardines") do not “hang”, but are vertical posts, round at the base, on which twin doors pivot in a round-mortised stone. Our term is "key-men", but the key & the keyhole in Italy allude to Amore. Look up "chiavata" and "chiave".
December 7, 2010
john commented on the word incardinate
Thanks much for the erudite comment, and in particular to introducing me to the term cacography, with which I hadn't been familiar.
December 8, 2010