HEATHENISES Antonyms

• teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

• raise from a barbaric to a civilized state

• a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief

• change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy

• change the nature, purpose, or function of something

• change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief

• exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category

• cause to adopt a new or different faith

• score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone

• make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something

• exchange a penalty for a less severe one

• change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change

• enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering

• preach the gospel (to)

• spread the Christian faith

• make more humane

• interpret the moral meaning of

• speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements

• improve the morals of

• remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation

• make pure or free from sin or guilt

• become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin

• render holy by means of religious rites

• give religious sanction to, such as through an oath

• make pure or free from sin or guilt

• give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense

• elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration

• purify from the corrupting influences of the world