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Secularize   Listen
verb
Secularize  v. t.  (past & past part. secularized; pres. part. secularizing)  
1.
To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk.
2.
To convert from spiritual to secular or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property. "At the Reformation the abbey was secularized."
3.
To make worldly or unspiritual.





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"Secularize" Quotes from Famous Books



... leave this accursed spot that the old palace of the Inquisition is now the Ministry of Justice, where a liberal statesman has just drawn up the bill of civil marriage; and that in the convent of the Trinitarians a Spanish Rationalist, the Minister of Fomento, is laboring to secularize education in the Peninsula. There is much coiling and hissing, but the fangs of the ser-pent are much less prompt and effective ...
— Castilian Days • John Hay


Words linked to "Secularize" :   turn, desacralize, secularise, change state


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