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Mithraize

Mithraize verb: to convert to or adapt according to Mithraism.

Verb

Mithraize (third-person singular simple present Mithraizes, present participle Mithraizing, simple past and past participle Mithraized)

  1. To convert to or adapt according to Mithraism.
    • Renan said that “if Christianity had been arrested in its progress by any mortal defect, the world would have been Mithraized”.1922, The American Church Monthly - Volume 11, page 732
    • But of winged gods one thinks immediately of Eros, not of course the diminished erotic putto, but the great cosmological and generative figure of the Orphics, known also as Phanes or Protogonos, who appears Mithraized in the famous figure at Modena.1988, Roger Beck, Planetary Gods and Planetary Orders in the Mysteries of Mithras, page 58

Examples of Mithraize in a sentence

  • Both the solar and lunar years, for example, represented a whole pattern of humiliation and exaltation, later "Mithraized."2006, Michael Patella, Lord of the Cosmos: Mithras, Paul, and the Gospel of Mark, pages 15- 16:
  • but at the very least we can say that lamblichus drew on a topos that in his own day had become, as it were, Mithraized2015, Roger Beck, “Soteriology, the Mysteries, and the Ancient Novel: Iamblichus Babyloniaca as a Test-Case”, in La soteriologia dei culti...

Forms of Mithraize

third-person singular presentMithraizes
present participleMithraizing
past participleMithraized
pastMithraized

Origin of Mithraize

From Mithra + -ize.

Questions about Mithraize

What does Mithraize mean?
Mithraize means to convert to or adapt according to Mithraism.
How do you use Mithraize in a sentence?
Both the solar and lunar years, for example, represented a whole pattern of humiliation and exaltation, later "Mithraized."
What part of speech is Mithraize?
Mithraize is a verb.
What is the past tense of Mithraize?
The past tense of Mithraize is Mithraized.

Words near Mithraize in the dictionary

  1. Mithraicists
  2. Mithraism
  3. Mithraist
  4. Mithraistic
  5. Mithraists
  6. Mithraize
  7. Mithraized
  8. Mithraizes
  9. Mithraizing
  10. mithralog
  11. mithralogs

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