secularise

A verb meaning to make something secular, especially by removing religious or ecclesiastical influence, control, or character.

• 🇫🇷Verbe signifiant rendre quelque chose laïque, notamment en supprimant l'influence, le contrôle ou le caractère religieux ou ecclésiastique.

1. Make secular C1 formal british

   To remove religious influence or character from something, such as an institution, education, or society.

   • The government moved to secularise the public school system.
   • Many European countries began to secularise their legal systems in the 19th century.
   • The movement aimed to secularise political institutions and separate them from the church.

   🇫🇷Rendre laïque

   Synonymes: deconsecratedesacralizedisestablishlaicizesecularize

   Antonymes: consecratesanctify

• secularised past participle
• secularised past simple
• secularising present participle
• secularises third person singular