单词 | paganize |
释义 | paganizev. 1. transitive. To make pagan; to give a pagan character or form to. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > paganization > paganize [verb (transitive)] idol1605 paganize1615 gentilize1643 heathenize1681 infidelize1836 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 151 A Christian Paganis'd with name of Punke. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 628 Christianity..was thereby it self Paganized and Idolatrized. 1700 S. Wesley Epist. to Friend conc. Poetry 21 They Vertue prais'd at least, which ours abuse, And more than Paganize the Heav'n-born Muse. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 126 Even as early as the third century the Church had begun to Paganize Christianity. 1876 W. E. Griffis Mikado's Empire xxvi. 257 Fire and sword were used to extirpate Christianity, and to paganize the same [Japanese] people who in their youth were Christianized by the same means. 1944 Polit. Sci. Q. 59 132 Fascist educators suceeded in perverting Italian Catholicism and in paganizing Italian youth. 2001 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 6 May 57 A starched nun who goes to the Himalayas and sets up a mission..hopes to convert the natives, but the reverse happens: The environment starts to paganize the nuns. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > practice paganism [verb (intransitive)] idolatrize1592 gentilize1593 idolizea1627 paganize1640 ethnicize1665 heathenize1681 infidelize1876 society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > paganization > paganize [verb (transitive)] > undergo paganize1640 1640 E. Chilmead tr. J. Ferrand Ερωτομανια 176 They paganize it to their own damnation. 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 23 This was that which made the old Christians Paganize. 1875 Sunday Mag. May 512 When Christendom begins to speak of her golden age as in the past, she paganises. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1615 |
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