Judaize
English
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[edit]Judaize (third-person singular simple present Judaizes, present participle Judaizing, simple past and past participle Judaized)
- (transitive) To impose Jewish beliefs or customs on someone; to convert to Judaism; to make Jewish.
- 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC:
- The heretical Theodotion, the Judaized Symmachus.
- a. 1710, George Bull, sermon:
- They were Judaizing doctors, who taught the observation of the Mosaic law.
- 2024 January 21, Our Narrative… Operation Al-Aqsa Flood[1], Hamas Media Office, archived from the original on 21 January 2024, page 4:
- […] allowing “Israel” to exploit such situation to expropriate further Palestinian lands and to Judaize their sanctities and holy sites.
- (intransitive) To be engaged in activity that imposes Jewish beliefs or customs on someone or something.
- 2023 January 10, David M. Freidenreich, chapter 1, in Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy[2], Oakland, California: University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 31:
- Later polemicists employ anti-Muslim rhetoric, especially allegations that Muslims themselves judaize, in similar fashion.
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[edit]to impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism
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References
[edit]- “Judaize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.