laicize

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

• 🇩🇪Verb, das bedeutet, etwas zu verweltlichen oder nichtreligiös zu machen; jemanden oder etwas des kirchlichen oder geistlichen Charakters zu berauben, insbesondere einen Geistlichen in den Laienstand zu versetzen.

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.

   🇩🇪Säkularisieren

   Synonyme: deconsecratedefrocksecularizeunfrock

   Antonyme: consecrateordainsanctify

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