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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: secularize)
WordNet
adj. made secular [syn: secularised]
Usage examples of "secularized".
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.