Abrahamize

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English

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Etymology

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From Abraham +‎ -ize.

Verb

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Abrahamize (third-person singular simple present Abrahamizes, present participle Abrahamizing, simple past and past participle Abrahamized)

  1. (very rare, nonstandard) To make Abrahamic
    • 2010, Reihan Salam, National Review, Brief Note Re: the Cordoba House Controversy[1]:
      the native religions of India have been increasingly “Abrahamized
    • 2010, M Bloch, Bloch on Bloch on "Religion"[2]:
      This was the case when Hinduism became Abrahamized as it was re-represented in India and elsewhere as an alternative' to Islam.
    • 2013, Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya, The Dharma Manifesto, page 172:
      Abrahamism arose in an artificially Abrahamized Europe as a schizophrenic rejection of the incontrovertible excesses of religious Abrahamism.