proselytizev.

1679 L. Addison First State Mahumedism xiv. 71 As he was zealously proselytizing at Medina, news came that Abusophian Ben-Hareth was going into Syria.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. xii. 105/2 Not without some touch of the universal feeling, a wish to proselytise.

1840 T. De Quincey On Essenes: Pt. III in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 643/1 A sect that proselytized was at any rate a hazardous sect in Judæa.

1851 G. Borrow Lavengro lxvii Some sharking priest who has come over to proselytise and plunder.

1916 Times 3 May 3/7 Religion is not forced down the men's throats, nor is there any attempt to proselytize; but there is an effort to make the whole atmosphere such as to appeal to the spiritual side.

1973 L. Bangs in G. Marcus Psychotic Reactions (1987) 119 Another channel broadcasts nothing but ‘Jesus Freaks’..proselytizing, beating tambourines and singing songs 24 hours a day.

2001 J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand lxix. 376 The street pushers proselytized. They wore flash threads. They drove jig rigs. They glorified ‘H’. They glamorized it.

1796 E. Burke Let. to Noble Lord in Wks. (1815) VIII. 51 One of these whom they endeavour to proselytize.

1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. v. 155 His lordship..was all for proselytising Ireland again.

1865 J. Morley Mod. Characteristics 85 We do not expect a bigot to live in much harmony with people whom he cannot proselytize.

1931 Jewish Q. Rev. 22 11 Catherina Henriques, a widow, was proselytized at the age of forty-four by other women.

1986 New Statesman 10 Oct. 10/3 Can all the activists in the salariat proselytise their colleagues into support for Labour on a continuing basis?

1994 Laywitness Oct. 4/1 John is already an inspired prophet..who proselytizes his mother.