missionize

[ mish-uh-nahyz ]

verb (used without object)

, mis·sion·ized, mis·sion·iz·ing.

1. to conduct missionary work.

verb (used with object)

, mis·sion·ized, mis·sion·iz·ing.

1. to conduct missionary work in or among.

Word History and Origins

Origin of missionize¹

First recorded in 1820–30; mission + -ize

Example Sentences

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

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 Project Gutenberg

Some years after, when I was passing, I stopped there for a few days, and gave them "a lift," as they called it; and I then saw with half a glance that they had become practised workers—that both clergymen and people were fitted to missionize the whole country side.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg