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单词 missionize
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missionizev.

Brit. /ˈmɪʃənʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈmɪʃəˌnaɪz/
Forms: 1800s– missionize, 1900s– missionise.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mission n., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < mission n. + -ize suffix. Compare mission v.
1. intransitive. To conduct or promote a mission; to serve as a missionary, do missionary work.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > preaching > proselytization > mission > conduct mission [verb (intransitive)]
missionate1815
missionize1826
mission1898
1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 19 464 Why do they not buy all the land in a single island, and missionize and philanthropize at their own expense.
1907 Amer. Hist. Rev. 12 811 Where he seems to have journeyed and missionized as early as 1308.
1991 Church Times 12 July 9/3 There will continue to be Christians who feel called upon to missionise among Jews.
1993 J. Sayers Innocent III 93 The papacy's purpose and raison d'être was to missionize and convert.
2. transitive. To do missionary work among (a people) or in (a place). Also: (with pejorative connotation) to impose missionary influence upon (a people).
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > preaching > proselytization > mission > conduct mission [verb (transitive)]
mission1772
missionarize1830
missionize1875
1875 Ladies' Repository Feb. 165 Stanley..wields a most sensible American pen, and sensible are his remarks on missionizing Africa.
1888 L. Spender Kept Secret III. ii. 29 You have been spending the long years in missionizing cannibals.
1927 G. D. H. Cole & M. Cole Murder at Crome House xiv. 177 Though if I were the heathen, I should hate to be missionised by them, I think.
1956 R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond xxiii. 267 Father Hugh had to undertake not to try to missionise people.
1993 J. Sayers Innocent III 86 The Magyars had expansionist aims and by the thirteenth century they had missionized much territory and brought Croatia within their kingdom.
2005 C. de Waal Albania Today viii. 118 Some Italian nuns were going around trying to missionize the small children in Rrëshen.

Derivatives

ˈmissionizer n. rare a missionary.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > preaching > proselytization > mission > [noun] > one who conducts
missionary1625
missioner1654
gospeller1673
umfundisi1825
God-man1842
moruti1866
missionizer1901
missionist1909
mish1939
1901 Publ. Circular 25 May 583/2 Social missionizers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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