Dictionary

Judaize en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈd͡ʒuːdeɪˌaɪz/
• /ˈd͡ʒuːdiˌaɪz/

Meanings

1. (transitive) To impose Jewish beliefs or customs on someone; to convert to Judaism; to make Jewish.
   • They were Judaizing doctors, who taught the observation of the Mosaic law. a. 1710, George Bull, sermon:
   • […] allowing “Israel” to exploit such situation to expropriate further Palestinian lands and to Judaize their sanctities and holy sites. 2024 January 21, Our Narrative… Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Hamas Media Office, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2024, page 4:
   • The heretical Theodotion, the Judaized Symmachus. 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC:
2. (intransitive) To be engaged in activity that imposes Jewish beliefs or customs on someone or something.
   • Later polemicists employ anti-Muslim rhetoric, especially allegations that Muslims themselves judaize, in similar fashion. 2023 October 1, David M. Freidenreich, chapter 1, in Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy, Oakland, California: University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 31:

Forms

Antonyms

dejudaize

Deriveds

Judaizing · Judaization · Judaizer

Synonyms

Jewmaxx

Translations (15)

he ייהד (to impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism) · sv judaisera (to impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism) · it giudaizzare (to impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism) · ru евреизи́ровать (to impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism) · de judaisieren (to impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism) · ro judaiza (to impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism) · es judaizar (to impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism) · la judaizare (to impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism) · fr judaïser (to impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism) · pt judaizar (to impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism) · ru евреизова́ть (to impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism) · ms ميهوديکن (to impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism) · grc ἰουδαΐζω (to impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism) · ca judaïtzar (to impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism) · ar هَوَّدَ (to impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism)