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proselytize, v.|ˈprɒsɪlaɪtaɪz, -lɪtaɪz|
[f. proselyte n. + -ize.]
1. intr. To make proselytes; = proselyte v. c.
1679L. Addison Mahumedism xiv. 71 As he was zealously proselytizing at Medina, news came that Abusophian Ben-Hareth was going into Syria. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. xii. (1858) 180 Not without some touch of the universal feeling, a wish to proselytise. 1840De Quincey Essenes Wks. 1859 X. 286 A sect that proselytized was at any rate a hazardous sect in Judæa.
2. trans. To make a proselyte of; = proselyte v. a.
1796Burke Let. Noble Ld. Wks. VIII. 51 One of these whom they endeavour to proselytize. 1847Disraeli Tancred ii. v, His lordship..was all for proselytising Ireland again. 1865Morley Mod. Characteristics 85 We do not expect a bigot to live in much harmony with people whom he cannot proselytize.
Hence ˈproselytizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1828Carlyle in For. Rev. & Cont. Misc. II. 439 The influence of this proselytizing bigotry. 1842Pusey Crisis Eng. Ch. 98 In our own day, any exhibition of ourselves as a proselytizing Church would unsettle many of our own children. 1881Monier Williams in 19th Cent. Mar. 504 Proselytising has never been attempted by the Zoroastrians since their arrival on Indian soil. 1883Froude Short Stud. IV. iii. 269 A proselytising religion was a new phenomenon. |