Crossword clues for secularize
secularize
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Secularize \Sec"u*lar*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Secularized; p. pr. & vb. n. Secularizing.] [Cf. F. s['e]culariser.]
To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk.
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To convert from spiritual to secular or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property.
At the Reformation the abbey was secularized.
--W. Coxe. To make worldly or unspiritual.
--Bp. Horsley.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, of property, offices, etc., from secular + -ize. From 1711 as "to become worldly;" from 1846 of education, social institutions, etc. Related: Secularized; secularizing.
Wiktionary
vb. To make secular.
WordNet
v. make secular and draw away from a religious orientation; "Ataturk secularized Turkey" [syn: secularise]
transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control
Usage examples of "secularize".
Among those are the lawyers, notaries, bailiffs and former petty provincial judges and attorneys who furnish the leading actors and two-thirds of the members of the Legislative Assembly and of the Convention: There are surgeons and doctors in small towns, like Bo, Levasseur, and Baudot, second and third-rate literary characters, like Barrère, Louvet, Garat, Manuel, and Ronsin, college professors like Louchet and Romme, schoolmasters like Leonard Bourdon, journalists like Brissot, Desmoulins and Freron, actors like Collot d'Herbois, artists like Sergent, Oratoriens[3] like Fouché, capuchins like Chabot, more or less secularized priests like Lebon, Chasles, Lakanal, and Grégoire, students scarcely out of school like St.
We would be secularized, dragged into the same sort of degenerate society and lax morals as the damned Manticorans!
His face was lit by a shaft of light from a small high opening on to the secularized cloister, and as he turned Stephen recognized Andrew Wray.
If one is forced to such an alternative, it is perhaps better to starve in a wholly secularized and meaningless universe than to recall the obscenities and cruelties of paganism.
He did not seriously resist the idea, presented to him every so often in those talks, that perhaps Castalian culture was merely a secularized and transitory offshoot of Christian culture in its Occidental form, which would some day be reabsorbed by its parent.
It was nothing more than the logical extension of our propaganda, the secularizing of the myths and legends with which we had kept the people fed during the dark days of lost hope.
It’s based on an agreement that was made sixty or more years ago between the convent and some noble who was secularizing church property in his lands after he turned Protestant, that they wouldn’t accept any new novices and he got the land after the last one died.
It's based on an agreement that was made sixty or more years ago between the convent and some noble who was secularizing church property in his lands after he turned Protestant, that they wouldn't accept any new novices and he got the land after the last one died.
If you start secularizing all the ecclesiastical territories in your new domain it will make a lot of princes nervous.
One Sufi group, the Bektashis, supported Ataturk’s secular nationalist movement, though some Sufi orders have worked against Ataturk’s secularizing trend.