2. Adjective. freed from ecclesiastical control ¹
3. Adjective. secularized ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Laicized
1. laicize [v] - See also: laicize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laicized
Literary usage of Laicized
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Modern Régime by Hippolyte Taine (1894)
"Meanwhile, each year, by virtue of the law, the communal schools are laicized by
hundreds, by fair means or foul ; although this is by right a local matter, ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... priests in giving religious instructions to children attending the primary
schools in Paris and other parts of France, after these had been laicized. ..."
3. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association, Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter (1908)
"Nearly a score of years ago the French, when their education began to be laicized,
commenced to sift over all their own literature and history in quest of ..."
4. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"In the moralities, where it was laicized, it was more or less a school of virtue.
The many hundred characters that have been created for the stage are ..."
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