apostolize

1. (archaic) To convert; to proselytize.Examples: "In the year 1835, the Holy Synod thought it necessary to apostolize a little in the district of Wiatka, and to convert the Tcheremisses (heathens) to the right faith."; "...but I am now about to produce evidence that Asoka's acquaintance with geography was not limited to Asia, and that his expansive benevolence towards living creatures extended, at least in intention, to another quarter of the globe;—that his religious ambition sought to apostolize Egypt;—and that we must hereafter look for traces of the introduction of Buddhism into the fertile reagions of the Nile, so prolific of metaphysical discussions from the earliest ages!"; "To promote its interests, by rendering the United States subsidiary; to conquer the mind of this country by conforming American ideas to French theories, were objects sufficient to engage all the efforts of these restless aliens, who gladly arrayed themselves under its political agents in their mission to apostolize this western world."archaic