catholicize

Questions about catholicize

What does catholicize mean?

catholicize means "cause to adopt Catholicism".

How many syllables are in catholicize?

catholicize has 4 syllables and divides as ca-tho-li-cize under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for catholicize?

Close synonyms include catholicise, latinize, latinise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is catholicize a common word?

catholicize is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.