laicize

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Meaning

1. verb To convert from church-controlled to independent of the church; to secularize.

   They will laicise each of the schools in the district.

2. verb To reduce from clergy to layman.

   Due to his controversial views the Vatican decided to laicise the priest.

3. verb To convert to lay status.

   The soup kitchen laicised, it moved out of the church and registered as an independent non-profit.

Similar words

laicise secularize declericalize desecularize dereligionize unsecularize unsectarianize de-christianize dereligionise secularise

Often followed by

the

Word family

laicization laicizations laicized laicizes laicizing