laicize, laicise
(verb) reduce to lay status; “laicize the parochial schools”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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
24 May 2025
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
