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secularize
[ sek-yuh-luh-rahyz ]
verb (used with object)
- to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- to change (clergy) from regular to secular.
- to transfer (property) from ecclesiastical to civil possession or use.
secularize
/ 藞蝉蓻办箩蕣濒蓹藢谤补瑟锄 /
verb
- to change from religious or sacred to secular functions, etc
- to dispense from allegiance to a religious order
- law to transfer (property) from ecclesiastical to civil possession or use
- English legal history to transfer (an offender) from the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts to that of the civil courts for the imposition of a more severe punishment
Derived Forms
- 藢蝉别肠耻濒补谤颈藞锄补迟颈辞苍, noun
- 藞蝉别肠耻濒补谤藢颈锄别谤, noun
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 蝉别肠路耻路濒补谤路颈路锄补路迟颈辞苍 [sek-y, uh, -l, uh, -rahy-, zey, -sh, uh, n] noun
- 蝉别肠路耻路濒补谤路颈锄路别谤 noun
- 辞路惫别谤路蝉别肠路耻路濒补谤路颈锄别 verb (used with object) oversecularized oversecularizing
- 耻苍路蝉别肠路耻路濒补谤路颈锄别诲 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of secularize1
Example Sentences
Hospitals were secularized, orphanages and parish schools closed or often transformed into prep schools for rich kids causing the Church to relinquish much of its relevancy in the daily lives of Catholics.
鈥淵ou could make the argument that it 鈥 in the secularized form over the centuries becomes just a general principle that the morally correct person is somebody who doesn鈥檛 waste their time.鈥
Brigid鈥檚 moment is happening as many Irish are disillusioned with traditional Roman Catholicism and its patriarchal leadership amid a secularizing culture.
Holidays were secularized: Holy Week is known as Tourism Week.
But blasphemy laws were gradually relaxed as Sweden became increasingly secularized.
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