v. rare. [f. as prec.: see -FY: cf. CHURCHIFY.] trans. To imbue with the principles of the ‘kirk’ or Church of Scotland; to make like a Scottish church.
1661. R. L’Estrange, Relaps’d Apostate, 6. Your Kirkify’d Reformers;… that made such Conscience of a Ceremony.
1854. Hawthorne, Eng. Note-bks., II. 286. St. Giles’s Cathedral,… having been kirkified into three interior divisions by the Covenanters.
