The Collaborative International Dictionary
Christianize \Chris"tian*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Christianized; p. pr. & vb. n. Christianizing.] [Cf. F. christianiser, L. christianizare, fr. Gr. ?.]
To make Christian; to convert to Christianity; as, to Christianize pagans.
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To imbue with or adapt to Christian principles.
Christianized philosophers.
--I. Taylor.
Usage examples of "christianizing".
Abner, on his part, was equally insistent that the lessons be held in Hawaiian, for he saw that if he was to make progress in Christianizing the islands, he would have to speak in the native tongue.
The ordination ceremonies impressed Lahaina more deeply than any previous church activity, for when the congregation saw two of their own people promoted to full responsibility for Christianizing the islands, they felt at last that Hawaiians had become part of the church, and when Reverend Thorn promised that within a year some young man from Lahaina itself would be ordained, there was little discussed in the next days except one question: "Do you suppose they might choose our son?
So damned busy picking through my books find that one, Christianizing the Bakongo kingdom in the fifteenth century read it, take it and read it it's up there on the next shelf, baptizing Nzinga dressing him up in European clothes teaching him manners till he finally figures out they're selling his whole damned population to the plantations in Brazil and they.
He published pamÂphlets on the Christianizing of black slaves and the raising of children, although he didn't know much about either blacks or children.