atheize

Verb

atheize (third-person singular simple present atheizes, present participle atheizing, simple past and past participle atheized)

1. (rare, transitive) To render (someone) atheistic.
   • After this manner, authority vvorking in a circle, they endeavoured to atheize one another.1732, George Berkeley, “The Second Dialogue”, in Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. […], volume I, London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC, section XVII, page 118
   • In like manner, it ought not to be predicated of a French party—and of a party comprehending Despresmenil, Bailly, Maury, Mounier—that because one Robinet was suffered to read an impudent atheistical disquisition in a lodge aat Lyons, it is therefore plainly the main object of free-masonry to...1798 March, “Robinson’s Proofs of a Conspiracy”, in The Monthly Review, page 307
2. (intransitive, rare) To become atheistic.
   • A considerable observation of Plato's, that it is not only moral vitiosity, which inclines men to atheize, but also an affectation of seeming wiser than the generality of mankind; […]1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe