Meaning

(transitive, rare) To render (someone) atheistic..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, rare) To render (someone) atheistic.
2. (intransitive, rare) To become atheistic.

Example Sentences

After this manner, authority vvorking in a circle, they endeavoured to atheize one another.

In like manner, it ought not to be predicated of a French party—and of a party comprehending Despresmenil, Bailly, Maury, Mounier—that because one Robinet was suffered to read an impudent atheistical disquisition in a lodge aat Lyons, it is therefore plainly the main object of free-masonry to atheize the universe.

There is an element in every State, daily increasing in numerical strength, becoming more emphatic in its utterances, more pronounced in its attitude, whose avowed object is completely to secularize and atheize the state and the nation in all their work and in all their relations to state institutions and individual subjects.

It ought to be added, also, that the theory of providing exclusively secular education by the State exerts a most unfavorable influence upon our youth, tending to demoralize and atheize them.

A considerable observation of Plato's, that it is not only moral vitiosity, which inclines men to atheize, but also an affectation of seeming wiser than the generality of mankind; […]

Word Forms

• atheizes
• atheizing
• atheized

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