Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To make or become catholic.
- transitive & intransitive verb To convert or be converted to Catholicism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To become a Catholic.
- To convert to the Roman Catholic faith.
- Also spelled
Catholicise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Alternative spelling of
Catholicize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to adopt Catholicism
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Examples
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I interpret this latest little burst of controversy as signalling several things: Some traditionalist Catholics I'd call them Catholic triumphalists would like to over-catholicize the Taize movement.
Philocrites: Brother Roger's communion with the bishop of Rome. 2006
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Portuguese sought to catholicize them by very harsh means, and succeeded only in attracting their dislike.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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[The passage] is about the Polish magnates 'desire to catholicize the Ukrainian population, in order to have more influence on it and to eventually assimilate it.
Neeka's Backlog 2009
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