missionize
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of missionize
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The Assumptionist Fathers swore to combat irreligion in Europe, to missionize in the East.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
This was the last attempt made by the Spaniards to missionize the Yumas.
From The Old Franciscan Missions Of California by George Wharton James
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
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 George Wharton James
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 Sherburne F. Cook
That night we came to the farm-house where the Kents farmed and missionized.
From Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales by Arthur Shearly Cripps
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
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 Sherburne F. Cook
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 Sherburne F. Cook
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
People no longer thought missionizing the best way, as they thought it 30 years ago, to spend their charity-money.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
A popular and missionizing presentation of the Jewish system in the form of a "Life of Moses," and three appended tractates on the virtues "Courage," "Humanity," and "Repentance."
From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich
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