v. rare. [f. Gr. ἔθν-ος (τὰ ἔθνη the nations, Gentiles: see ETHNIC) + -IZE.] intr. To favor Gentile or heathen views or practices. Hence Ethnizing vbl. sb., in quot. attrib.
1846. Buch, trans. Hagenbach’s Hist. Doctr., I. 42. The earliest heresies of which we have any trustworthy account, appear either as judaizing, or as ethnizing (hellenizing) tendencies.
