laicize
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laicize verb
- To convert from church controlled to independent of the church; to secularize.“They will laicise each of the schools in the district.”
- To reduce from clergy to layman.“Due to his controversial views the Vatican decided to laicise the priest.”
- To convert to lay status.“The soup kitchen laicised, it moved out of the church and registered as an independent non-profit.”
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