Associations to the word «Laicize»
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Wiktionary
LAICIZE, verb. (transitive) To convert from church controlled to independent of the church; to secularize.
LAICIZE, verb. (transitive) To reduce from clergy to layman.
LAICIZE, verb. (intransitive) To convert to lay status.
Dictionary definition
LAICIZE, verb. Reduce to lay status; "laicize the parochial schools".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.