churchizev.
/ˈtʃəːtʃʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈtʃərtʃˌaɪz/ transitive. = churchify v.Sometimes opposed to Christianize v.; cf. churchianity n.
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1843 Churchman Mar. 212 Another subject of congratulation to all friends of our spiritual Zion is the churchizing, if we may coin such a word, of many of our hitherto unauthorized societies.
1859 Times 6 July 9/5 Various schemes for releasing dissenters by de-churchizing them altogether.]
1871 H. Tuttle Arcana of Spiritualism xix. 423 They give us no assurance of the Christianization of a single savage. They claim churchizing a few, that is, persuading them to conform to their ritual.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 July 8/2 Teacher of the School, in the days when there was no suspicion of its being ‘churchized’.
1910 Herald of Gospel Liberty 1 Sept. 1112/3 There is a tendency in the present day and age by some people who have joined church and become churchized, instead of Christianized, to do away with the divine and miraculous.
2001 W. Lee Econ. God x. 140 The widespread move of gospelizing, truthizing, and churchizing Taiwan is an unprecedented blessing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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