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catholicize, v.|kəˈθɒlɪsaɪz, ˈkæθəlɪsaɪz|
In 7 -ickise, -ikize.
[f. as catholicity + -ize: in its earlier form f. Catholick.]
1. trans. To make catholic or Catholic (in various senses of the adjective).
1629H. Burton Babel no Bethel 126 Doth not the Pope monopolize and Catholickise (as I may so say) the Church of Rome..as the onely Catholick Church over the earth? 1799Monthly Rev. XXVIII. 570 To catholicise the phraseology of natural history. 1809Knox & Jebb Corr. I. 535 They will yet by their writings, serve to catholicise the romanists. 1865Pusey Truth Eng. Ch. 281 It seemed..before these secessions that..nothing but time was needed to Catholicize England. 1878Dowden Stud. Lit. 333 To liberalise the [Papal] Church, to catholicise Liberalism.
2. intr. To become, or behave as, a Catholic.
1611Cotgr., Catholizer, to catholikize it..become a Catholicke. 1853W. Hazlitt tr. Monston's Israel of Alps xxvii. 194 All protestant foreigners settled in Piedmont are ordered to catholicize or to quit the country.
Hence catholicized ppl. a., catholicizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1826C. Butler Life Grotius App. 256 He is said to have had in view the catholicising, as it was termed, the Northern Part of Germany. 1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. §5. 299 The collision which is impending between the Catholic, or catholicising party, and the liberal party in Oxford. 1870Daily News 3 Oct., The forcible abduction and catholicizing of the little Mortara boy. 1878Dowden Stud. Lit. 337 A catholicised liberalism. |