Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To take over or adapt in the name of Christianity.
- transitive verb To convert to Christianity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make Christian; convert to Christianity: as, to
Christianize the heathen. - To imbue with Christian principles.
- To follow or profess Christianity; to approach the character of a Christian.
- Also spelled
Christianise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make Christian; to convert to Christianity.
- transitive verb To imbue with or adapt to Christian principles.
- intransitive verb To adopt the character or belief of a Christian; to become Christian.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make
Christian . - verb To cause to convert to
Christianity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb convert to Christianity
- verb adapt in the name of Christianity
Etymologies
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Examples
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Will we Christianize, which is the only real way to Americanize, the Aliens?
Aliens or Americans? 1895
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Bill had a dilemma once he got sober: the only place his alcoholic friends were recovering was the Oxford Group, an evangelical sect that had as their express goal to "Christianize" people.
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Bill had a dilemma once he got sober: the only place his alcoholic friends were recovering was the Oxford Group, an evangelical sect that had as their express goal to "Christianize" people.
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How I wish these nimrods would stop wasting $$$$ trying to 'Christianize' everyone -- especially with their own, exclusive brand of Christianity!
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Why look at just that round and not round one and see where it all started- with the blind support of Israel, support for dictators and America's evangelical desire to "Christianize" the Middle East, that has been going on for decades except for the bible-thumping that started this decade!
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Bill had a dilemma once he got sober: the only place his alcoholic friends were recovering was the Oxford Group, an evangelical sect that had as their express goal to "Christianize" people.
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He's the President who went to war against Spain on false pretenses, and then decided to turn the Philippines into a U.S. colony rather than allow it independence so that he could "Christianize" its predominately Catholic inhabitants, leading to a three-year insurrection that cost the lives of more than 4,000 American troops and 220,000 Filipinos.
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How I wish these nimrods would stop wasting $$$$ trying to 'Christianize' everyone -- especially with their own, exclusive brand of Christianity!
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How I wish these nimrods would stop wasting $$$$ trying to 'Christianize' everyone -- especially with their own, exclusive brand of Christianity!
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Ah yes, the decision in 400 to 'Christianize' 'pagan' things since as Christ can cleanse all people, taking over a 'pagan' popular holiday and then giving it a new name involving the word Saint or something like that was very popular.
Lynne's Soap Wonderland, Bunnies and Postcards Elizabeth McClung 2009
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