Judaize

Verb

Judaize (third-person singular simple present Judaizes, present participle Judaizing, simple past and past participle Judaized)

1. (transitive) To impose Jewish beliefs or customs on someone; to convert to Judaism; to make Jewish.
   • The heretical Theodotion, the Judaized Symmachus.1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC
   • They were Judaizing doctors, who taught the observation of the Mosaic law.a. 1710, George Bull, sermon

   Synonyms:

   Jewmaxx

   Antonyms:

   dejudaize

2. (intransitive) To be engaged in activity that imposes Jewish beliefs or customs on someone or something.
   • Later polemicists employ anti-Muslim rhetoric, especially allegations that Muslims themselves judaize, in similar fashion.2023 October 1, David M. Freidenreich, chapter 1, in Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy, Oakland, California: University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 31