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- verb British To make
Christian . - verb British To cause to convert to
Christianity .
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Examples
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For the working class, however, their labours spelt slavery, and ought always to be remembered when similar attempts to 'Christianise'
British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals J. Ellis Barker 1909
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The stated aims of Lever were "to socialise and Christianise business relations and get back to that close family brotherhood that existed in the good old days of hand labour".
Fed up of 'Legoland' estates? Then reject plans, says housing minister 2011
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Interestingly, a couple of teachers who partially reversed this effect were a chemistry teacher who was an evangelical Christian – and a prim fusspot – and a math teacher who quietly subverted the establishment efforts to Christianise the school population.
Foisting fake Christianity on the young « Anglican Samizdat 2009
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He claimed affinity more for the traditions of China (confucianism and daoism) than for the Jews (he isnt Chinese btw) and argued that the I-Ching should be ok, just as Aquinas Christianised Aristotle so he wants to Christianise the I Ching.
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Motshekga, who asked the department to "de-Christianise" Christmas and Easter.
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It would still be advisable to “humanise the governors of prisons, to civilise the warders, and to Christianise the Chaplains.”
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As a disciple of Max Shachtman, Leo Strauss, Ayn Rand and the rest (or, more probably, as a disciple of their disciples), you want to de-Christianise (precisely in order to de-democratise and to enslave) the West, even if you are prepared, for popular consumption, to define your own system as Christianity so as to prevent any serious theological critique of it.
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Christianise his people, and, although knowing practically nothing of the white man's religion, had already started to build a church, using for the purpose £800 which he had saved.
Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone
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"No form of vice, not worldliness, not greed of gold, not drunkenness itself, does more to un-Christianise society than evil temper," says a distinguished and thoughtful writer.
When the Holy Ghost is Come Col. S. L. Brengle
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Christianise such pagans, for they stuck to their false gods with the same tenacity that the northern nations did.
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson
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