LAICIZE

laicize, laicise

(verb) reduce to lay status; “laicize the parochial schools”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

laicize (third-person singular simple present laicizes, present participle laicizing, simple past and past participle laicized)

(transitive) To convert from church controlled to independent of the church; to secularize.

(transitive) To reduce from clergy to layman.

(intransitive) To convert to lay status.

Source: Wiktionary



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