paganise

/'peigənaiz/ Cách viết khác : (paganise) /'peigənaiz/

Thân thiện

A missionary tries to paganise the local tribe's rituals.

Definition

1. Verb (transitive):
   • To cause something or someone to adopt pagan characteristics, beliefs, or practices; to convert to or imbue with paganism.
   • To make something secular or non-religious in a way that aligns with pagan traditions.

Usage and Examples

• Verb (transitive):
  • Historians argue that some early festivals were paganised when incorporated into the new religious calendar.
  • The conquerors sought to paganise the local population by introducing their own deities and rituals.
  • Critics accused the popular media of paganising traditional holidays by emphasizing commercial and secular elements over their original religious meaning.

Advanced Usage and Notes

• The verb paganise often carries a critical or descriptive tone, used in historical, religious, or sociological contexts to describe a process of cultural or religious syncretism or change.
• It is less common in everyday modern English and is primarily found in academic or formal writing.
• The process of can be intentional (e.g., through policy) or unintentional (e.g., through cultural adaptation over time).

Variants and Related Words

• Paganize: The preferred spelling in American English.
• Paganisation/Paganization (noun): The act or process of paganising.
  • The paganisation of the site was evident from the new statues placed there.
• Pagan (noun/adjective): A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions; relating to pagans or paganism.
• Paganism (noun): A religion other than one of the main world religions, typically a polytheistic or nature-worshipping faith.

Synonyms

• Heathenize: To make heathen (archaic and similar in meaning).
• Secularize: To make secular or non-religious (can overlap in some contexts, but "secularize" is broader and not specific to paganism).

Antonyms

• Christianize: To convert to Christianity.
• Convert: To change one's religious faith (general term).
• Sanctify: To set apart as or declare holy.

Học thuật

Verb

1. make pagan in character
   • The Church paganized Christianity

Từ đồng nghĩa

• paganize