Catholicize

See also: catholicize

English

Alternative forms

• Catholicise
• catholicize
• catholicise

Etymology

From Catholic +‎ -ize.

Verb

Catholicize (third-person singular simple present Catholicizes, present participle Catholicizing, simple past and past participle Catholicized)

1. (transitive) To make Catholic; to convert to Catholicism.
   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

     Dickinson's iconography of suffering, with its sexualized pleasure-pain, Catholicizes austere American Protestantism.

2. (intransitive) To become Catholic; to convert to Catholicism.

Antonyms

• de-Catholicize
• un-Catholicize

Derived terms

• Catholicization
• de-Catholicization
• re-Catholicization
• re-Catholicize

Translations

make Catholic

Esperanto: katolikigi German: katholisieren, katholisch machen Romanian: catoliciza (ro) Russian: католизировать (katolizirovatʹ) Spanish: catolizar (es) Swedish: katolisera Vietnamese: Công giáo hóa, Công giáo hoá

become Catholic

German: zum Katholizismus konvertieren, katholisch werden Swedish: katolisera

See also

• Christianize
• Protestantize