secularize Definition
secu·lar·ize (sek′yə lə rīz′)
transitive verb -·ized′, -·iz′·ing
- to change from religious to civil ownership or use
- to deprive of religious character, influence, or significance
- to convert to secularism
- to release by church authority from religious vows and from connection with a monastery or similar religious institute; give secular status to
Etymology: Fr séculariser < LL(Ec) saecularis: see secular
secularize Related Forms
sec′u·lari·za′·tion noun
secularize Usage Examples
Object
- society: Indeed, it is possible to identify two basic lines of our current secularized society that are clearly interdependent.
- world: In this secularized world his life is a cry, his purpose is a question and the way of his community is an answer.
- religion: First, what he calls exoteric religion is not the same as what he criticizes as secularized religion.
- version: His genius lay in embracing his followers in his fantasies of a modern, secularized version of the millenium.
Modifying Another Word
increasingly: They were, to use the term in the first quotation above, ' increasingly secularized ' .
Browse dictionary entries near secularize
- ‹ secularity
- ‹ secularism
- ‹ secular humanism
- ‹ secular
- ‹ sectorial
- ‹ sector rotation
- ‹ sector equity fund
- ‹ sector
- ‹ sectionalize
- ‹ sectionalism

