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(transitive, archaic) To baptize or christen again; to rename.
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(intransitive) Synonym of apostatize.
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Alternative spelling of apostatize [To give up or renounce one's position or belief.]
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To become an aposteme; to pustulate.
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(archaic) To convert; to proselytize.
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(transitive, Roman Catholicism) To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.
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(derogatory) The process of making or becoming less sophisticated and/or more characteristic of the culture of the rural United States.
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(chiefly Christianity) Especially of a church: to give official approval to; to authorize, to sanction.
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To exalt to the office of a cardinal.
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The act or state of becoming like the presidency of Jimmy Carter, especially in relation to perceived ineffectiveness or unreliability.
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The act of collectivizing
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(transitive, social sciences, by extension) To intrude into and take over (the autonomy, experience, social movement, etc, of a less powerful person or group); to commandeer or appropriate.
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Alternative letter-case form of Columbian Exchange [(historical) The widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, communicable diseases, technology and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres in the 15th and 16th centuries, related to European colonization and trade after Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage.]
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Among Christian missionaries, the process or period of time during which they raise support in preparation for going to their mission field.
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(religion, transitive) To convert (a person) into a disciple.
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The preaching or promulgation of a doctrine.
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(more generally) The conversion of anything into an Eden or paradise.
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To preach any ideology to those who have not yet been converted to it.
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(chiefly religion) To interpret; to perform an exegesis.
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The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
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(obsolete) specific to a people; national
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Causing one to become, or becoming, a gentile.
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(US, informal) The effects on a neighborhood of an influx of hipsters.
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The adaptation of Christian teachings in a non-Christian culture.
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The movement towards Islamic holy war.
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Britain standard spelling of lightsaber.
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(transitive) To make a martyr of (someone).
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(obsolete) To visit the city.
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The act or result of misscribing.
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(intransitive) To do missionary work, proselytize.
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A school conducted by a missionary abroad.
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The religious work of a missionary.
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The work of a missionary, attempting to spread a religion or creed.
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(archaic, transitive) To spread religion to, in the role of a missionary.
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The person whom a missionary attempts to convert to a religion.
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The religious work done by missionaries.
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The religious work of a missionary.
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One who missionizes; a missionary.
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Alternative form of missiology [The area of practical theology which studies the mandate, message and work of the Christian missionary.]
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(intransitive, transitive) To offer as a sacrifice.
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(transitive) To have a monopoly on something.
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The action of naturalizing somebody; act of granting citizenship.
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The name designating a Roman citizen as a member of a particular gens; a gentile name.
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The expropriation of foreign owned capital to domestic persons.
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The process of changing to a paramilitary system.
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To turn into a patriarchy.
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The act of becoming patriotic.
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(now rare, historical) To support or advocate the cause of Philip of Macedon; (more generally) to speak as someone who has been wrongly inspired or corrupted.
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(transitive) To make plebeian, common, or vulgar.
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(intransitive, UK) To hold more than one ecclesiastical benefice at the same time.
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(intransitive) To uphold or encourage prelacy; to exercise prelatical functions.
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The transfer of a company or organization from government to private ownership and control.
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(religion) winning new converts
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One who has converted to a religion or doctrine, especially a gentile converted to Judaism.
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(religion, historical) A convert who was not compelled to submit to the regulations of the Mosaic law.
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A person who proselytes; a proselytizer.
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The practice of proselytizing or the state of being a proselyte
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(transitive, intransitive, strictly) To coerce into religious conversion.
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A proselytizer, one who proselytes.
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(slang, derogatory) A person given to excessive religious proselytizing.
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(dated) To corrupt by getting a significant number of members to collaborate with an enemy occupying force.
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The process of converting (a territory, etc.) back to the Catholic religion.
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(politics, sociology) Process by which radical or subversive ideas are co-opted by mainstream society.
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Nationalized again, after a previous privatization.
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(economics) The process of, or an instance of, returning to private ownership.
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The act or process of converting (a state etc.) to republican principles.
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(sociology) The transfer of responsibility from higher authorities to communities or individuals who are then called on to take an active role in resolving their own problems.
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(Islam, usually proscribed) The act of conversion to Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim.
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(transitive, Catholicism) To receive the sacraments of the Catholic Church.
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to make a Sadducee; to conform to Sadduceeism.
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(politics) The act of convincing a relevant audience to treat a topic as a matter of security (regardless of whether it constitutes an actual threat), thus justifying the use of extraordinary measures.
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To regain power (by indigenous people) after having been under colonial rule by another country, typically with the adoption of some of the culture of the former colonizers.
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(obsolete, intransitive) To exercise authority; to rule; to lord it.
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(transitive) To preach a sermon to (somebody); to give (somebody) instruction or admonishment on the basis of one's morality or opinions.
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(transitive) To make into a sovereign; to promote to ruler.
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(derogatory) Increased homogeneity of an area as a result of big business, to the detriment of local character and diversity.
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(Japanese Mormonism) To proselytize in public.
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Britain standard spelling of teetotaling.
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To inculcate in a set of traditions.
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(figuratively) A growth of cynicism, disenchantment or belief in corruption such as the American citizenry experienced over the course of the Vietnam War.
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