catholicizev.
/kəˈθɒlɪsʌɪz//ˈkaθəlɪsʌɪz/ 1. transitive. To make catholic or Catholic (in various senses of the adjective).
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > give a general character to [verb (transitive)] > make general, common, or universal
catholicize1629
universalize1748
generalize1756
globalize1937
1629 H. 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?
1799 Monthly Rev. 28 570 To catholicise the phraseology of natural history.
1809 J. Jebb Let. 31 May in J. Jebb & A. Knox Thirty Years' Corr. (1834) I. 535 They will yet, by their writings, serve to catholicize the romanists.
1865 E. B. Pusey Eirenicon 281 It seemed..before these secessions that..nothing but time was needed to Catholicize England.
1878 E. Dowden Stud. Lit. 333 To liberalise the [Papal] Church, to catholicise Liberalism.
2. intransitive. To become, or behave as, a Catholic.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > conversion to Catholicism > convert to Catholicism [verb (intransitive)]
catholicize1611
Romanize1637
to go over1658
papalize1835
vert1888
popec1916
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Catholizer, to catholikize it..become a Catholicke.
1853 W. Hazlitt tr. Monston Israel of Alps xxvii. 194 All protestant foreigners settled in Piedmont are ordered to catholicize or to quit the country.
Derivatives
catholicized adj.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > conversion to Catholicism > [adjective]
Latinizing1853
catholicized1878
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > universal > making > made universal
universalized1651
catholicized1878
1878 E. Dowden Stud. Lit. 337 A catholicised liberalism.
catholicizing n. and adj.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > conversion to Catholicism > [noun]
catholicizing1826
papizinga1843
papalization1844
papalizing1882
catholicization1905
poping1959
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > generality or prevalence > universality > making or becoming universal
universalization1798
universalizing1811
catholicizing1826
globalization1930
mondialization1961
1826 C. Butler Life Grotius App. 256 He is said to have had in view the catholicising, as it was termed, the Northern Part of Germany.
1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation §5. 299 The collision which is impending between the Catholic, or catholicising party, and the liberal party in Oxford.
1870 Daily News 3 Oct. 6/4 The forcible abduction and catholicizing of the little Mortara boy.
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