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
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.