v. Obs. rare–1. [f. as prec. + -IZE.] intr. To act, speak, etc., like an ‘ethnic’ or heathen.
1663. J. Spencer, Prodigies (1665), 247. Whereas both Tacitus and Josephus relate the sudden opening of the doors of the Temple, [etc.]; they appear to me very much to Ethnicize in all these stories.
