secularize Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make secular and draw away from a religious orientation
    secularise.
    • Ataturk secularized Turkey
  2. verb transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control
    desacralize.

WordNet


Sec"u*lar*ize transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. F. séculaiser.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Secularized ; present participle & verbal noun Secularizing
Definitions
  1. To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk.
  2. To convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property.
    At the Reformation the abbey was secularized. W. Coxe.
  3. To make worldly or unspiritual. Bp. Horsley.

Webster 1913