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paganize, v.|ˈpeɪgənaɪz|
[a. F. paganise-r (1551 in Hatz.-Darm.) or med.L. pāgānizāre: see pagan and -ize.]
1. trans. To make pagan; to give a pagan character or form to.
1615R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 151 A Christian Paganis'd with name of Punke. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §36. 628 Christianity.. was thereby itself Paganized and Idolatrized. 1812–29Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 126 Even as early as the third century the Church had begun to Paganize Christianity.
2. intr. To become pagan; to act as a pagan; to assume a pagan character. Also to paganize it.
1640Chilmead tr. Ferrand's Love Melancholy 176 They paganize it to their own damnation. 1641Milton Animadv. (1851) 206 This was that which made the old Christians Paganize. 1875Mrs. Charles in Sunday Mag. May 512 When Christendom begins to speak of her golden age as in the past, she paganises.
Hence ˈpaganized ppl. a., ˈpaganizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also ˌpaganiˈzation, the action of paganizing or fact or being paganized; ˈpaganizer, one who paganizes.
1863Draper Intell. Devel. Europe x. (1865) 228 The *paganization of religion was in no small degree assisted by the influence of the females of the Court of Constantinople. 1898F. I. Antrobus tr. Pastor's Hist. Popes V. 9 Whether..the paganisation of all the relations of life [was] so universal as has been maintained.
1732Waterland Chr. Vind. Charge 74 *Paganized Christianity. 1873Morley Rousseau I. 194 The paganized catholicism of the renaissance.
1727–41Chambers Cycl., Ethnophrones,..q.d. *paganizers, or persons, whose thoughts, or sentiments were still heathen or gentile.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 110 To take heed of..Judaizing, *Paganizing, of idolatry, atheism, superstition. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. iii. ii. (1864) I. 328 Christianity made some steps toward the old religion by the splendour of its ceremonial, and the incipient paganising, not of its creed, but of its popular belief.
1631R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creature xi. §1. 96 Called abusively by Pagans and Heathens, and *Paganizing Christians, the Goods of Fortune. 1826G. S. Faber Diffic. Romanism (1853) 347 The Bible knows nothing of those paganising distinctions between relative worship and positive worship. |