Definition of "catholicize" []

• To make or become catholic. (verb-transitive)
• To convert or be converted to Catholicism. (verb-transitive)

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• "I interpret this latest little burst of controversy as signalling several things: Some traditionalist Catholics I'd call them Catholic triumphalists would like to over-catholicize the Taize movement."
• "Portuguese sought to catholicize them by very harsh means, and succeeded only in attracting their dislike."
• "[The passage] is about the Polish magnates 'desire to catholicize the Ukrainian population, in order to have more influence on it and to eventually assimilate it."