单词：Catholicize

中文含义：使成为天主教徒；使通晓或接受天主教的教义或习俗。

英语词性：verb

美式音标：/ˈkæθəlɪˌsaɪz/

同义词：convert, baptize, assimilate

易混淆单词：catholicism, catharsis

双语例句：

  • He decided to catholicize his marriage in order to be accepted as a member of the church.
  • After being raised in a Protestant family, he catholicized in his early twenties.
  • Many Europeans during the Renaissance period were trying to catholicize the new world.