catholicize

/ kəˈθɒlɪˌsaɪz /

verb

1. to make or become catholic
2. often capital to convert to or become converted to Catholicism

Derived Forms

• caˌtholiciˈzation, noun

Example Sentences

They are yet catholicizing the Church of England, without doubt more catholic still than I am.

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Matthew is not only in its whole structure a composite gospel, but shows in high degree the catholicizing tendency of the times.

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Only where Calvin's influence was less potent, e.g. in the Lutheranized German Reformed, the catholicized Anglican Episcopal Church, and among the Cocceians, is this tendency less apparent or altogether wanting.

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Tschackert is correct in maintaining that, in the articles of justification and of the Church, "the fundamental thoughts of the Reformation doctrine were catholicized" by the Leipzig Interim.

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He is said, to have particularly had in view, the catholicizing, as it was termed, the northern part, of Germany.

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