gentilize

Verb

gentilize (third-person singular simple present gentilizes, present participle gentilizing, simple past and past participle gentilized)

1. (transitive) To render (something) gentile
   • If it should appear by an exposition of the truth, that there is no such kind of soul in the universe as that conceited by the pagan Greeks and Romans, and gentilized into the doctrine of the apostles by contemporary perverters (Gal 1:7-9) of the gospel, the faith and hope of which it hath...1848, John Thomas, Elpis Israel
2. (transitive) To render gentlemanly.
   • You Marchant Mercers, and Monopolites, / Gain-greedy Chap-men, periur'd Hypocrites, / Diſſembling Broakers, made of all deceipts, / VVho falſifie your Meaures and your VVeights, / T' enrich you ſelues, and your vnthrifty Sons / To Gentillize with proud poſſeſſions: […]1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “[Du Bartas His First Week, or Birth of the World: […].] The Third Daie of the First Week.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and...
3. (intransitive) To live like a gentile or heathen.