catholicize

/kə'θɔlisaiz/

Thân thiện

The missionary worked to catholicize the village through teaching and example.

Definition

1. Transitive Verb:
   • To cause to adopt Catholicism: To convert someone or a group to the Roman Catholic faith; to make Catholic in belief or practice.

Usage Examples

• Transitive Verb:
  • The missionaries sought to catholicize the indigenous population.
  • Efforts to catholicize the region met with both success and resistance.

Advanced Usage

• Historical/Religious Context: The term is often used in historical, theological, or sociological discussions about religious conversion, missionary work, and cultural change.
  • The decree aimed to catholicize the liturgy across the empire.

Variants and Related Words

• Catholicization (n): The process or act of making something Catholic.
  • The catholicization of the festival incorporated local traditions.
• Catholic (adj/n): (1) Of the Roman Catholic Church. (2) A member of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Romanize (v): Sometimes used in a similar historical context for conversion to Roman Catholicism, though it can also refer to writing in the Roman alphabet.

Synonyms

• Convert to Catholicism: The most direct synonym.
• Romanize: In specific historical contexts (e.g., the Romanization of the Celtic church).

Antonyms

• Protestantize: To convert to Protestantism.
• Secularize: To remove religious influence or character.

Học thuật

Verb

1. cause to adopt Catholicism

Từ đồng nghĩa

• catholicise
• latinize
• latinise