v. arch. [f. as prec. + -IZE.]
1. trans. To convert into an angel, render angelic.
1633. T. Adams, Exp. 2 Pet. ii. 10. That sin … would have deified angels, and angelized men.
1633. Earl Manch., Al Mondo (1636), 190. Such like thoughts … will Angelize thy body, and Emparadise thy soule.
1796. W. Taylor, in Month. Rev., XX. 520. It ought not to be our object to angelize, nor to brutalize, but to humanize man.
† 2. intr. To belong or lean to the Angelists. Obs.
1605. T. Bell, Motives conc. Rom. Faith, Ded. 1. If Tertullian … erred montanizing … if Nazianzen angelizing, if Eusebius arrianizing.
