Crossword clues for laicize
laicize
Wiktionary
laicize
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To convert from church controlled to independent of the church; to secularize. 2 (context transitive English) To reduce from clergy to layman. 3 (context intransitive English) To convert to lay status.
WordNet
laicize
v. reduce to lay status; "laicize the parochial schools" [syn: laicise]
Usage examples of "laicize".
Angela tried to explain that despite what all the clergy in Rome said to each other, it made not a bit of difference back home, whether a priest had been laicized or not.
I ask you to consider the possibility, and postpone your request to be laicized until you decide.
Everywhere and, before the world was finally laicized, at all times, trees have been worshiped.