Word Study
laicize
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb laicize has 1 sense
- laicize(v = verb.change) laicise - reduce to lay status; "laicize the parochial schools" is one way to alter, change, modify
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
laicize, v.tr. (also -ise)
1 make (an office etc.) tenable by lay people.
2 subject (a school or institution) to the control of lay people.
3 secularize.
1 make (an office etc.) tenable by lay people.
2 subject (a school or institution) to the control of lay people.
3 secularize.
Derivative
laicization n.
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