mithraize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To convert to or adapt according to Mithraism.
Example Sentences
- "Renan said that “if Christianity had been arrested in its progress by any mortal defect, the world would have been Mithraized”."
- "But of winged gods one thinks immediately of Eros, not of course the diminished erotic putto, but the great cosmological and generative figure of the Orphics, known also as Phanes or Protogonos, who appears Mithraized in the famous figure at Modena."
- "Both the solar and lunar years, for example, represented a whole pattern of humiliation and exaltation, later "Mithraized.""
- "but at the very least we can say that lamblichus drew on a topos that in his own day had become, as it were, Mithraized"
Etymology
From Mithra + -ize.