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Definition of Laicize
1. Verb. Reduce to lay status. "Laicize the parochial schools"
Definition of Laicize
1. Verb. (transitive) To convert from church controlled to independent of the church; to secularize. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To reduce from clergy to layman. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) To convert to lay status. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Laicize
1. to free from clerical control [v -ICIZED, -ICIZING, -ICIZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laicize
Literary usage of Laicize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"To laicize, then, is to give this lay character to whatever had not previously
had it—or, at least, not entirely. It is to exclude religion from entering in ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Though it proved not feasible to laicize the administration of public affairs
throughout the Papal States, in Rome the lay element was to be more strongly ..."
3. Author's & Printer's Dictionary: A Guide for Authors by Frederick Howard Collins (1912)
"Lahore, India, not -or. laicize*, to secularize, not -ise. laid paper*, that
which when held up to the light shows parallel lines at intervals of an inch or ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... and the latter attempted to laicize higher education and to relax monastic bonds.
Santa Anna took advantage of the situation to assume the presidency. ..."
5. A Political History of Europe, Since 1814, by Charles Seignobos (1901)
"The Kingdom of Sardinia alone has, since 1850, undertaken to laicize her institutions
and enter into open conflict with the Holy See (see p. ..."
6. The Methodist Review (1887)
"THE FRENCH CHAMBERS are making awkward work in the matter of • organizing popular
education so as to laicize the schools and exclude from them all but lay ..."
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