Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To render heathen or heathenish. Also spelled heathenise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To render heathen or heathenish.

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  • verb transitive To render heathen; to convert to heathenism.

Etymologies

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heathen +‎ -ize

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Examples

  • What made Daniel steadfast amidst all the efforts to heathenize him during his captivity in Babylon?

    The Christian Home Samuel Philips

  • It is there an act of the Babylonish king to heathenize the child.

    The Christian Home Samuel Philips

  • Christian family of its mission as a nursery for the soul; wrest from the parents their high prerogative as stewards of God; and you heathenize home, yea, you brutalize it!

    The Christian Home Samuel Philips

  • These four millions of people, must now be educated and christianized -- for you must know that the barbarism of slavery possessed a tendency to heathenize and blot out all signs of manly integrity and Christian virtues, and who better than the A.M. E. Church, can perform this labor?

    An Apology for African Methodism Benjamin Tucker 1867

  • Acts xv. 1, and Galatians, passim; these do not judaize, but heathenize, seeking to throw off every yoke, to rid themselves not of the ceremonial law only, but also of the moral; and to break down every distinction separating the Church from a world lying in the wicked one.

    Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863

  • As human slavery is a practice entirely of heathen origin, it was to be expected that when it was adopted among Christians from the heathen, it would in a material respect be supported by the same means, appear the same thing both in practice and name, and so far as its influence extended heathenize those Christians that adopted it.

    A condensed anti-slavery Bible argument, by 1845

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