Laicized

verb

Word Frequency: 0.0

Definitions

1.verbTo convert from church controlled to independent of the church; to secularize.

"They will laicise each of the schools in the district."

2.verbTo reduce from clergy to layman.

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

3.verbTo convert to lay status.

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

4.adjectiveFreed from ecclesiastical control

5.adjectiveSecularized

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