proselytize \PROS-uh-luh-tyz\, intransitive verb:
1. To induce someone to convert to one's religious faith.
2. To induce someone to join one's institution, cause, or political party.
transitive verb:
1. To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like.
-- James Fallows, "Containing Japan", The Atlantic, May 1989
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