secularize
Use Secularize in a sentence
yə verb (used with object), sec·u·lar·ized, sec·u·lar·iz·ing.
1.
to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
2.
to change (clergy) from regular to secular.
3.
to transfer (property) from ecclesiastical to civil possession or use.
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| —vb | |
| 1. | to change from religious or sacred to secular functions, etc |
| 2. | to dispense from allegiance to a religious order |
| 3. | law to transfer (property) from ecclesiastical to civil possession or use |
| 4. | English legal history to transfer (an offender) from the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts to that of the civil courts for the imposition of a more severe punishment |
| secularise or secularise | |
| —vb | |
| seculari'zation or secularise | |
| —n | |
| seculari'sation or secularise | |
| —n | |
| 'secularizer or secularise | |
| —n | |
| 'seculariser or secularise | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
Their history has always been tax, spend, borrow and secularize the country.
When you secularize a religious holiday, you thoroughly trivialize it.
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