Christianise

How To Use Christianise In A Sentence

• South, that had taught and christianised the nation. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
• Lithuanians, who were not christianised until the thirteenth or fourteenth century, from their roving habits as well perhaps as from their remoteness, were among the last peoples of Europe to abandon their old creed. The Superstitions of Witchcraft
• Interestingly, a couple of teachers who partially reversed this effect were a chemistry teacher who was an evangelical Christian – and a prim fusspot – and a math teacher who quietly subverted the establishment efforts to Christianise the school population. Foisting fake Christianity on the young « Anglican Samizdat
• Its destruction and decay may have lodged in folk memory and been Christianised into the version we have today.
• There is reason to believe these wells were the objects of adoration before the country was christianised, and that such adoration was a survival of the earlier practice to which Seneca and The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
• He reconsecrated it to the Virgin Mary and resumed using the temple to pray for the dead, only now it was ‘Christianised ‘, as men added the unscriptural teaching of purgatory.
• Its destruction and decay may have lodged in folk memory and been Christianised into the version we have today.
• The really interesting thing is that the mythology Tolkien borrowed from was far more sophisticated in its outlook than the christianised version he made of it. The Real Fantastic Stuff, an essay by Richard K. Morgan - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games
• The truth is not so saintly simple as the christianised Oscar would have us believe. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
• [14] See, with reference to this, the "Navigation of Mael-Duin," a christianised narrative, probably composed in the tenth century, under the form in which we now possess it, but "the theme of which is fundamentally pagan. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance