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Christianize, v.|ˈkrɪstjənaɪz|
[f. Christian a. + -ize; perhaps after med.L. christianizāre; mod.F. has also christianiser.]
1. trans. To make Christian, convert to Christianity (persons, nations).
1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 126 He which peruseth that, and yet is Diagoriz'd, will neuer be Christianiz'd. 1676I. Mather Hist. War w. Indians (1862) 48 He was Christianized and baptiz'd. 1789Morse Amer. Geog. I. 744 The Jesuits..made great efforts to civilize and Christianize the natives. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) II. iv. i. 195 Scotland and Ireland were Christianized centuries before.
2. To make Christian in character, to imbue with Christian principles or forms.
1693Apol. Clergy Scot. 49 The preaching of some men is such morality, as Seneca and other Heathens taught, only Christianised with some words. 1809Edin. Rev. Apr. 224 He was then accused..of wishing to Christianize the Revolution (Christianizer la Revolution). 1831Arnold in Stanley Life (1844) I. vi. 274, I cannot understand what is the good of a national Church if it be not to Christianize the nation. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 339.
3. intr. To adopt or conform to Christianity; to play the Christian. (rare.)
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. Colonies Prester Iohn..Doth in some sort deuoutly Christianize. 1641Milton Animadv. (1851) 206 They did no more..but bring some Pagans to Christianize. 1823Lamb Elia, Imperf. Symp. These half convertites—Jews christianizing—Christians judaizing—puzzle me.
Hence Christianized ppl. a., Christianizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; Christianizer, one who Christianizes (trans. and intr.).
1652Gaule Magastrom. 50 A Jewish rabbin, or a pagan philosopher, or a Christianizer compact of them both. 1671J. Flavel Fount Life iv. 10 The far greater part of the Christianised world. 1767T. Hutchinson Hist. Prov. Mass. ii. 137 Some of the..christianized Mohawks. 1806Ann. Rev. IV. 265 The would be christianizers of Hindostan. 1806Southey Lett. (1856) I. 370 In Germany..the clergy are philosophising Christians, or Christianising philosophers. 1859I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 201 The time of the Christianizing of the empire. |