paganize

American  

[pey-guh-nahyz] / ˈpeɪ gəˌnaɪz /

verb (used with object)

paganized, paganizing

1. to make pagan.

---

verb (used without object)

paganized, paganizing

1. to become pagan.

paganize British  

/ ˈpeɪɡəˌnaɪz /

verb

1. to become pagan, render pagan, or convert to paganism

---

Other Word Forms

• paganization
  noun
• paganizer
  noun
• unpaganize
  verb (used with object)

Etymology

Origin of paganize

First recorded in 1605–15; pagan + -ize

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

paganize paganized paganizing

He would paganize, Latinize and Mediterraneanize the genius of Europe.

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper

“He believes that the institutions of a technocratic market society are neutral zones that should, in theory, accommodate both traditional Christianity and the libertine ways and paganized ideology of the other side.”

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 12, 2019

By such almost unconscious dialectics, the people worked at sifting out the rules for a society paganized by sheer information and searching for a moral grid.

From Time Magazine Archive

THE policy of the Byzantine court had given to primitive Christianity a paganized form, which it had spread over all the idolatrous populations constituting the empire.

From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by Draper, John William

And it is like if he had outlived that emperor till a heathen succeeded, he should have paganized the second time.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

A dual point of view was attempted in a work, licensed in January, 1600, which pretended to be "a commendation of true poetry, and a discommendation of all bawdy, ribald, and paganized poets."

From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Spingarn, Joel Elias

Nor could they treat of Christianity without paganizing it.

From The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Burckhardt, Jacob

Plotinus wrote against the paganizing Christians, or Gnostics. 

From Letters on Literature by Lang, Andrew

Cyril represented the paganizing, Nestor the philosophizing party of the Church.

From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by Draper, John William

When the genuine works of our worthy became known to the Jews, Yosippon was regarded as the true representative of the Jewish point of view against the paganizing traitor.

From Josephus by Bentwich, Norman

Paganizing themselves, they sought a deeper paganizing of their serfs than the original paganism that these had brought from Africa.

From Civilization the Primal Need of the Race The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3 by Crummell, Alexander