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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive & intransitive verb To make or become catholic.
  • transitive & intransitive verb To convert or be converted to Catholicism.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To become a Catholic.
  • To convert to the Roman Catholic faith.
  • Also spelled Catholicise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Alternative spelling of Catholicize.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb cause to adopt Catholicism

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