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ˈheathenize, v.
[f. heathen + -ize.]
1. trans. To render heathen or heathenish.
1681H. More Exp. Dan. iii. 74 Endeavouring to Heathenize the People of God again. 1827Hare Guesses (1859) 84 Till very lately we sent out our colonists, not so much to christianize the Heathens, as to be heathenized by them.
2. intr. To practise heathenism; to become heathen or heathenish.
1769[see below]. 1850S. R. Maitland Eruvin (ed. 2) 174 The Christians, instead of judaizing, began to heathenize. 1861Trench Sev. Ch. Asia 74 These..do not judaize but heathenize, seeking to throw off every yoke.
Hence ˈheathenized ppl. a.; ˈheathenizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1769W. Jones (of Nayland) Wks. (1810) I. 203 By the proud Arian or the heathenizing moralist. 1856S. Winkworth Tauler's Life & Serm. (1857) 75 To combat the heathenizing philosophers of Christendom. 1857–8Sears Athan. vii. 64 A heathenized Christianity. 1893E. Bellasis Mem. Serjt. Bellasis 157 The result..must be the heathenizing of the rising generation. |