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. (present participle of secularize English)
Usage examples of "secularizing".
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.