v. [UN-2 6 c.] trans. To deprive of the character or status of being Christian; to render unchristian.
a. 1714. M. Henry, Treat. Baptism, v. Wks. 1853, I. 549/1. To unchurch, unchristianize, unbaptize, all those who are not in every thing of our length.
1746. Brit. Mag., 95. Debasing and unchristianizing the more polite and younger Part of the Nation.
1839. Morn. Herald, 1 July. To enslave the people and un-Christianise the country.
1850. Newman, Diffic. Anglic., I. i. (1891), I. 24. Why, half the country is unbaptized…. Shall the country unchristianize itself?
a. 1878. Sir G. Scott, Lect. Archit., I. 13. Surely this does not unchristianise the already Christian architecture of the soldiers of the Cross.
Hence Unchristianized ppl. a.1, -izing vbl. sb.
1636. H. Burton, Apology of Appeale, 20. The basenesse of Degenerate English Spirits, become so unchristianized, as [etc.].
1853. Bright, Sp., Admiss. Jews to Parlt. (1868), 524. Whence this notion or feeling of unchristianising springs.
