Judaize

• Judaise

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒuːdeɪˌaɪz/, /ˈd͡ʒuːdiˌaɪz/

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.

   Antonym: dejudaize

   • 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC:

     The heretical Theodotion, the Judaized Symmachus.

   • a. 1710, George Bull, sermon:

     They were Judaizing doctors, who taught the observation of the Mosaic law.

   • 2024 January 21, Our Narrative… Operation Al-Aqsa Flood‎, Hamas Media Office, archived from the original on 21 January 2024, page 4:

     allowing “Israel” to exploit such situation to expropriate further Palestinian lands and to Judaize their sanctities and holy sites.

2. (intransitive) To be engaged in activity that imposes Jewish beliefs or customs on someone or something.
   • 2023 January 10, 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:

     Later polemicists employ anti-Muslim rhetoric, especially allegations that Muslims themselves judaize, in similar fashion.

• Judaization
• Judaizer
• Judaizing (gerund or present participle)

• “Judaize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.