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atheizing

atheizing is the present participle and gerund of atheize.

Meaning of 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
  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

Questions about atheizing

What is atheizing the present participle and gerund of?
Atheizing is the present participle and gerund of atheize.

Words near atheizing in the dictionary

  1. atheize
  2. atheized
  3. atheizer
  4. atheizers
  5. atheizes
  6. atheizing
  7. athel
  8. atheldom
  9. athelia
  10. atheling
  11. athelings

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