Catholicising

And he could be no less firm about aspects of liturgy of which he disapproved: his theology was never angular or sectarian (remember his generous support of the liturgical experiments of his successor as Dean of Clare, John Robinson), but there was a clear, eirenic but firm foundation in Protestant principle that made him very uneasy with what he regarded as the drip-feed of some sorts of Catholicising devotion into Anglican practice.

Sermon for the Life and Work of the Revd Prof CFD Moule 2008

It seems that James II., in his policy of Catholicising the country, ordered both

Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895

It is this -- that we are thoroughly convinced that it would be the surest way of de-Catholicising Ireland.

Home Rule Second Edition Harold Spender 1895

His Protestantising tendencies might, I think, have been more accurately described as non-Catholicising.

What I Remember Trollope, Thomas A 1887

Puritanism, -- Puritanism's great superiority over all products, like ritualism, of our Catholicising [253] tendencies, -- and also an idea rich in the latent seeds of intellectual promise.

Culture and Anarchy Matthew Arnold 1855