Judaize
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒuːdeɪˌaɪz/, /ˈd͡ʒuːdiˌaɪz/
Verb
Judaize (third-person singular simple present Judaizes, present participle Judaizing, simple past and past participle Judaized)
- (transitive) To impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism; to make Jewish.
- 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC:
- The heretical Theodotion, the Judaized Symmachus.
- a. 1710, George Bull, sermon:
- They were Judaizing doctors, who taught the observation of the Mosaic law.
Derived terms
Translations
to impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Judaize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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