Judaize

English

Alternative forms

Judaise

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒuːdeɪˌaɪz/, /ˈd͡ʒuːdiˌaɪz/

Verb

Judaize (third-person singular simple present Judaizes, present participle Judaizing, simple past and past participle Judaized)

(transitive) To impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism.
- 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, OCLC 260112239:
  The heretical Theodotion, the Judaized Symmachus.
- a. 1710, George Bull, sermon
  They were Judaizing doctors, who taught the observation of the Mosaic law.

Derived terms

Judaization
Judaizer
Judaizing (gerund or present participle)

Translations

to impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism

Arabic: هَوَّدَ‎ (hawwada)
Catalan: judaïtzar (ca)
French: judaïser (fr)
German: judaisieren
Hebrew: ייהד‎ (he) (yehéd)
Italian: giudaizzare
Latin: judaizare
Malay: ميهوديکن‎ (ms) (meyahudikan)
Portuguese: judaizar (pt)
Russian: евреизи́ровать impf or pf (jevreizírovatʹ), евреизова́ть impf or pf (jevreizovátʹ)
Spanish: judaizar (es)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Judaize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)