Judaize

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Judaize (third-person singular simple present Judaizes, present participle Judaizing, simple past and past participle Judaized)

  1. (transitive) To impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism.
    • Milton
      The heretical Theodotion, the Judaized Symmachus.
    • Bishop Bull
      They were Judaizing doctors, who taught the observation of the Mosaic law.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Judaize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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