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Catholicize
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catholicize
English
Alternative forms
en Catholicise
en catholicize
en catholicise
Etymology
From en Catholic ize.
Verb
en transitive To make Catholic; to convert to Catholicism.
en 1990 w:Camille Paglia Sexual Personae Dickinson's iconography of suffering, with its sexualized pleasure-pain, Catholicizes austere American Protestantism.
en intransitive To become Catholic; to convert to Catholicism.
Antonyms
en de-Catholicize
en un-Catholicize
Derived terms
en Catholicization Catholicizer de-Catholicization decatholicize re-Catholicization re-Catholicize uncatholicize
Translations
make Catholic
Esperanto: eo katolikigi
French: fr catholiciser
German: de katholisieren, de katholisch machen
Italian: it cattolicizzare
Romanian: ro catoliciza
Russian: ru католизировать
Spanish: es catolizar
Swedish: sv katolisera
Vietnamese: vi Công giáo hóa, vi Công giáo hoá
become Catholic
French: fr se catholiciser
German: de zum Katholizismus konvertieren, de katholisch werden
Italian: it cattolicizzarsi
Swedish: sv katolisera
See also
en Christianize
en Protestantize