puritanize

English

Etymology

Puritan +‎ -ize

Verb

puritanize (third-person singular simple present puritanizes, present participle puritanizing, simple past and past participle puritanized)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To agree with, or teach, the doctrines of Puritans; to conform to the practice of Puritans.
   • 1625, Richard Montagu, Appello Caesarem: a just Appeale from two unjust Informers:

     M. PERKINS , in his Probleme though hee ſaine would puritanize it , and ſo goeth on, hanging hoofe againſt hoofe, yet confeſſeth, that the Fathers uſed to arm themſelves againſt the Divell with the ſigne of the Croſſe

References

• “puritanize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.