laicize

A verb meaning to make something secular or non-religious; to remove clerical or ecclesiastical character.

• 🌐فعل يعني جعل الشيء علمانيًا أو غير ديني، ونزع الصفة الكنسية أو الروحية عنه، وإخراج الشخص من سلك رجال الدين.

1. Reduce to lay status C2 formal

   To remove clerical or ecclesiastical character from something; to make secular or non-religious.

   • The bishop decided to laicize the priest after the scandal.
   • The church council voted to laicize several members of the clergy.
   • The process to laicize a religious institution can be lengthy.

   🌐علمنة

   المرادفات: deconsecratedefrocksecularizeunfrock

   الأضداد: consecrateordainsanctify

• laicized past participle
• laicized past simple
• laicizing present participle
• laicizes third person singular