To give glory to God, as in doxology.--Webster.
No instance is to be found in which primitive Christians doxologized the spirit of God as a person.--Christian Disciple, Vol. II. p. 295.
Mr. Pickering says he "never met with the word in any other American work, nor in any English publication; but that it may possibly be a part of the professional language of divines." Mr. P. farther observes, that he found it in the early editions of the dictionaries of Ash and Bailey, from which it was afterwards discarded. Mr. Worcester has inserted the word in his new dictionary.