v. [ad. late L. jūdaizāre (Vulg.), a. Gr. ἰουδαΐζειν (Galat. ii. 14): see -IZE.]
1. intr. To play the Jew; to follow Jewish customs or religious rites; to follow Jewish practice.
1582. N. T. (Rhem.), Gal. ii. 14. How doest thou compel the Gentils to Iudaize?
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. ii. III. Colonies, 378. Where Prester Iohn (though part he Iudaize) Doth in some sort devoutly Christianize.
1625. Bacon, Ess., Usury (Arb.), 541. That Vsurers should haue Orange-tawney Bonnets, because they doe Iudaize.
1752. J. Macsparran, America Dissected (1753), 18. They [Sabbatarian Baptists] in a Sort, judaize in their Beginning and Manner of keeping the Sabbath.
1782. Priestley, Corrupt. Chr., II. VIII. 122.
1831–3. E. Burton, Eccl. Hist., xvi. (1845), 356. It is probable that the church at Jerusalem contained some persons, who in some points Judaized.
2. trans. To make Jewish; to imbue with Jewish doctrines or principles.
1653. Milton, Hirelings, Wks. (1851), 355. Error … in many other Points of Religion had miserably judaiz’d the Church.
1876. Lowell, Among my Bks., Ser. II. 273. The English translation of the Bible had to a very great degree Judaized, not the English mind, but the Puritan temper.
1879. Farrar, St. Paul (1883), 86. Judaism was more Hellenised by the contact than Hellenism was Judaised.
Hence Judaized ppl. a., -ing vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1626. Jackson, Creed, VIII. xviii. § 4. The Lutheran … charges that translation ., with Judaizing.
1641. Milton, Reform., I. Wks. (1851), 30. The Apostat Aquila, the Heretical Theodotion, the Judaiz’d Symmachus.
1704. Nelson, Fest. & Fasts, xxvii. (1739), 347. He confirmed the Judaizing Christians in their errors.
1855. Milman, Lat. Chr. (1864), II. IV. i. 171. The Talmudic Jews and the Judaising Christians, the Chiliasts of the early ages.
1884. Athenæum, 19 July, 73/2. Not an opponent … of Judaizing Christians like St. Barnabas.
