catholicize

Etymology

From Catholic + -ize.

catholicize means to make Catholic; to convert to Catholicism. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.

verb

To make Catholic; to convert to Catholicism.“Dickinson's iconography of suffering, with its sexualized pleasure-pain, Catholicizes austere American Protestantism.”
To become Catholic; to convert to Catholicism.