laicize

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

• 🇫🇷Verbe signifiant rendre quelque chose laïque ou non religieux; enlever le caractère ecclésiastique ou spirituel, notamment en transférant des biens ou des institutions de l'Église à l'État.

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.

   🇫🇷Laïciser (réduire à l'état laïque)

   Synonymes: deconsecratedefrocksecularizeunfrock

   Antonymes: consecrateordainsanctify

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