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From Calvin +‎ -ize.

Verb

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Calvinize (third-person singular simple present Calvinizes, present participle Calvinizing, simple past and past participle Calvinized)

  1. To convert to Calvinism.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Calvinize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)