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)

(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.
(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)
Vietnamese: Công giáo hóa, Công giáo hoá

become Catholic

German: zum Katholizismus konvertieren, katholisch werden