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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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