v. [f. LUTHERAN + -IZE.] a. trans. To render Lutheran; to convert to Lutheran doctrines and belief. b. intr. To become Lutheran; to incline to Lutheran doctrines. Hence Lutheranizer.
1845. Manning, in Purcell, Life (1896), I. xv. 311. Is it not strange that the Lutherans and Lutheranizers … hold a development?
1857. Pusey, Real Presence, i. (1869), 95. A few leading Zwinglian preachers Lutheranised for a while.
1879. Baring-Gould, Germany, II. 175. Ditmarschen … In 1532 it was Lutheranised.
