Mithraize

Mithraize

English

Etymology

Mithra +‎ -ize

Verb

Mithraize (third-person singular simple present Mithraizes, present participle Mithraizing, simple past and past participle Mithraized)

1. To convert to or adapt according to Mithraism.
   • 1922, The American Church Monthly - Volume 11, page 732:

     Renan said that “if Christianity had been arrested in its progress by any mortal defect, the world would have been Mithraized”.

   • 1988, Roger Beck, Planetary Gods and Planetary Orders in the Mysteries of Mithras, page 58:

     But of winged gods one thinks immediately of Eros, not of course the diminished erotic putto, but the great cosmological and generative figure of the Orphics, known also as Phanes or Protogonos, who appears Mithraized in the famous figure at Modena.

   • 2006, Michael Patella, Lord of the Cosmos: Mithras, Paul, and the Gospel of Mark, page 15- 16:

     Both the solar and lunar years, for example, represented a whole pattern of humiliation and exaltation, later "Mithraized."

   • 2015, Roger Beck, “Soteriology, the Mysteries, and the Ancient Novel: Iamblichus Babyloniaca as a Test-Case”, in La soteriologia dei culti orientali nell'Impero Romano:

     but at the very least we can say that lamblichus drew on a topos that in his own day had become, as it were, Mithraized