missionize
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of missionize
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The Saudis have spent some $400 million there since 1993, initially to help Bosnian Muslims fight the Serbs and then to rebuild the country and to missionize.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Assumptionist Fathers swore to combat irreligion in Europe, to missionize in the East.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had become possessed with the idea of addressing wider circles and of forming an order whose vocation should be to preach and missionize throughout the whole world.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
This was the last attempt made by the Spaniards to missionize the Yumas.
From The Old Franciscan Missions Of California by James, George Wharton
In this California there were many Indians, and it was to missionize these that the God-fearing, humanity-loving, self-sacrificing Jesuits just named--not Franciscans--gave of their life, energy and love.
From The Old Franciscan Missions Of California by James, George Wharton
Merely adding the 200 missionized natives would bring the population estimate for the Bolbones up to 1,500, and the aboriginal value was probably even higher.
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Cook, Sherburne F.
Of the five groups here discussed, the Aguastos, it is evident, were completely missionized or at least obliterated.
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Cook, Sherburne F.
Now it has been pointed out as probable that the southwestern outliers were missionized, or pushed back into the swamps, as early as 1801.
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Cook, Sherburne F.
Made of one piece of solid steel--special temper, axe pattern hickory handle, missionized hand forged--non-rusting finish.
From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America
The diaries and the baptism records both indicate that the original inhabitants were the Aguastos, who were missionized and removed.
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Cook, Sherburne F.
Professor Eduard Stakemeier, Roman Catholic theologian at the Philosophical-Theological Academy at Paderborn, Germany, feels that planetary missionizing would be unwise.
From Time Magazine Archive
Defending their sectarianism in an unfriendly world made Adventists a prickly people; preaching the imminence of the world's end made them a missionizing one.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chief question before the Methodists, as it has lately been before other missionizing churches, was: What to do about the Sino-Japanese War?
From Time Magazine Archive
People no longer thought missionizing the best way, as they thought it 30 years ago, to spend their charity-money.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nor is it unlikely that Hindu teachings exercised an influence over them, for Buddhism was at this age, like Judaism, a missionizing religion, and had teachers in the West.
From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Bentwich, Norman
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