˜yÐÄvlog

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missionize

[ mish-uh-nahyz ]

verb (used without object)

missionized, missionizing.
  1. to conduct missionary work.


verb (used with object)

missionized, missionizing.
  1. to conduct missionary work in or among.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of missionize1

First recorded in 1820–30; mission + -ize
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Example Sentences

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The Assumptionist Fathers swore to combat irreligion in Europe, to missionize in the East.

The Saudis have spent some $400 million there since 1993, initially to help Bosnian Muslims fight the Serbs and then to rebuild the country and to missionize.

He had become possessed with the idea of addressing wider circles and of forming an order whose vocation should be to preach and missionize throughout the whole world.

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Some years after, when I was passing, I stopped there for a few days, and gave them "a lift," as they called it; and I then saw with half a glance that they had become practised workers—that both clergymen and people were fitted to missionize the whole country side.

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In this California there were many Indians, and it was to missionize these that the God-fearing, humanity-loving, self-sacrificing Jesuits just named--not Franciscans--gave of their life, energy and love.

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