laicized
verb
- 1
To convert from church controlled to independent of the church; to secularize.
“They will laicise each of the schools in the district.”
- 2
To reduce from clergy to layman.
“Due to his controversial views the Vatican decided to laicise the priest.”
- 3
To convert to lay status.
“The soup kitchen laicised, it moved out of the church and registered as an independent non-profit.”
adjective
- 1
Freed from ecclesiastical control
- 2
Secularized
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