judaize

t. & i. [Fr. judaizer; Prov. ju dayzar, judaigar; Sp. judaizar: Port. judaisar; Ital. giudaizzare, from Lat. judaizo.] A. Trans.: To impose Jewish observances upon Gentile Christians. "Blundering upon the dangerous and suspectful translations of the apostate Aquila, the heretical Theodotion, the judaiz'd Symmachus." -Milton : Of Reformation in England, bk. i. B. In trans.: To practice Jewish observances or hold and teach Jewish opinions. "They were judaizing doctors who taught the observation of the Mosaic law, as nece ary to Christians."- Bp . Hall: Works, vol. i., ser. 13.