paganize

American  

[pey-guh-nahyz] / ˈpeɪ gəˌnaɪz /

verb (used with object)

paganized, paganizing

1. to make pagan.

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verb (used without object)

paganized, paganizing

1. to become pagan.

paganize British  

/ ˈpeɪɡəˌnaɪz /

verb

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

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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

When it had not actually a mythologic subject to deal with, it paganized Christian themes.

From Italian Journeys by Howells, William Dean

For if thou art the same elegant paganized son of Abraham thou wast in thine old days, thy debts are as many as thy usurers are scarce.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth

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

Plotinus wrote against the paganizing Christians, or Gnostics. 

From Letters on Literature by Lang, Andrew

Nor could they treat of Christianity without paganizing it.

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

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

I should meet the paganizing tendencies of advancing years with security if I could be forearmed with all the weapons of a sanctified life.

From Father and Son: a study of two temperaments by Gosse, Edmund

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

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