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Definition of Catholicise

1. Verb. Cause to adopt Catholicism.

Definition of Catholicise

1. Verb. (alternative spelling of Catholicize) ¹

2. Verb. (alternative spelling of Catholicize) ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Catholicise

Literary usage of Catholicise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Secret History of the Oxford Movement by Walter Walsh (1899)
"Corporate Reunion with Rome desired—Not individual Secession—The reason for this policy—How to " catholicise" the Church of England— Protestantism a ..."

2. The Baptist Quarterly by Baptist Historical Society (1869)
"They openly and ostentatiously avow their purpose to catholicise the whole Anglican body. They thrown down the gauntlet to the Protestant party of the ..."

3. Fifty Years in the Church of Rome by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (1886)
"put the leaven into the meal, and waited to see what would come of it. Our object was to catholicise England.-" And this confession of Dr. Pusey, ..."

4. A History of German Literature by John George Robertson (1902)
"... the second of these honours was no other than the bitter enemy of Protestantism, Graf Hannibal von Dohna, whose attempts to catholicise Silesia with the ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... the Protestants could claim that since their organization was no less a legitimate continuation of tbt pro-Reformation Church than Roman catholicise:. ..."

6. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"Hence it would seem to be at any rate a measure little calculated to catholicise Science and History, ш education, overmuch. Wednesday. ..."

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