religionizev.

1706 R. Brocklesby Explic. Gospel-theism ii. v. 253/2 They Religioniz'd during the time that they were govern'd by Judges.

1716 M. Davies Diss. Author & Oecon. Lat. Drama 32 in Athenæ Britannicæ III About every one's Thinking and Religionizing as he will.

1827 Westm. Rev. July 243 The pretenders to morality are already great hypocrites, and if they ‘philosophize’ or ‘religionize’, they are certainly drunkards.

1895 C. O. Ward Equilibration Human Aptitudes viii. 291 We find her hypocritically religionizing with te deums.

1989 M. H. Danzger Returning to Trad. vi. 133 To study is not simply to learn and know but also to religionize.

1783 N. Manners Attempt to illustrate Following Subj. 82 But reason religionized, with which thou didst endue him, and without which he could not serve thee, was choice.

1826 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. June 681/1 Whatever efforts have been made to religionize far distant nations, it is still of more consequence to us to look to what occurs at home.

1869 W. P. Mackay Grace & Truth (1874) 168 The ritualist tells us that man is to be religionised.

1890 Path Oct. 204 Its mode is to religionise, moralise, and philosophise the whole life.

1914 Southern Workman Mar. 135 Missionaries..giving themselves to the high task of humanizing and moralizing and religionizing the souls of a people that dwelt in darkness.

1977 Sociol. Anal. 38 293 Durkheim's eagerness to socialize religion and simultaneously to religionize society.

2000 A. J. Mayer Furies (2002) vi. 144 Jacobins and Bolsheviks ‘religionized’ politics by way of doctrine, myth, and ritual.