v. In 7– ickise, -ikize. [f. as prec. + -IZE: in its earlier form f. Catholick.]
1. trans. To make catholic or Catholic (in various senses of the adjective).
1629. H. Burton, Babel no Bethel, 126. Doth not the Pope monopolize and Catholickise (as I may so say) the Church of Rome … as the onely Catholick Church over the earth?
1799. Monthly Rev., XXVIII. 570. To catholicise the phraseology of natural history.
1809. Knox & Jebb, Corr., I. 535. They will yet, by their writings, serve to catholicize the romanists.
1865. Pusey, Eiren., 281. It seemed, indeed, before these secessions that … nothing but time was needed to Catholicize England.
1878. Dowden, Stud. Lit., 333. To liberalise the [Papal] Church, to catholicise Liberalism.
2. intr. To become, or behave as, a Catholic.
1611. Cotgr., Catholizer, to catholikize it … become a Catholicke.
1852. W. Hazlitt, trans. Muston’s Israel of Alps, xxvii. 194. All protestant foreigners settled in Piedmont are ordered to catholicise or to quit the country within fifteen days.
Hence Catholicized ppl. a., Catholicizing vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1826. C. Butler, Life Grotius, App. 256. He is said to have had in view the catholicising, as it was termed, the Northern Part of Germany.
1868. M. Pattison, Academ. Org., § 5. 299. The collision which is impending between the Catholic, or catholicising party, and the liberal party in Oxford.
1870. Daily News, 3 Oct., 6/4. The forcible abduction and catholicizing of the little Mortara boy excited the indignation of all Europe.
1878. Dowden, Stud. Lit., 337. A catholicised liberalism.
