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Catholicize en · VERB

Etymology

From Catholic + -ize.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To make Catholic; to convert to Catholicism.
    • Dickinson's iconography of suffering, with its sexualized pleasure-pain, Catholicizes austere American Protestantism. 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
  2. (intransitive) To become Catholic; to convert to Catholicism.

Forms

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Catholicized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
Catholicized Tense=Past lexicographic
catholicize alternative lexicographic
Catholicise alternative lexicographic
catholicise alternative lexicographic
Catholicizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
Catholicizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Antonyms

de-Catholicize · un-Catholicize

Deriveds

decatholicize · de-Catholicization · re-Catholicization · Catholicizer · Catholicization · re-Catholicize · uncatholicize

Relateds

Protestantize · Christianize

Translations (12)

es catolizar (make Catholic) · vi Công giáo hoá (make Catholic) · de zum Katholizismus konvertieren (become Catholic) · sv katolisera (make Catholic) · eo katolikigi (make Catholic) · de katholisch werden (become Catholic) · de katholisieren (make Catholic) · ru католизировать (make Catholic) · sv katolisera (become Catholic) · ro catoliciza (make Catholic) · de katholisch machen (make Catholic) · vi Công giáo hóa (make Catholic)