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laicize, v.|ˈleɪɪsaɪz|
Also -ise.
[f. laic a. + -ize. Cf. F. laïciser.]
trans. To make lay; to deprive of a clerical character; to secularize, esp. to commit (a school, etc.) to the direction of laymen; to make (an office) tenable by laymen.
1870Nonconformist 30 Nov. 1133 A measure tending..to laicise..the constitution and government of the Universities. 1882Q. Rev. Oct. 491 Clerical fellowships have been extinguished, and the Headships of Houses laicised. 1885Pall Mall G. 16 June 3/2 The proposal to laicize the names of the Paris streets, and banish therefrom the word ‘Sainte’. 1896Edin. Rev. July 211 It is competent for the authority to laicise a public school.
Hence ˈlaicizing vbl. n. and ppl. a. Also ˈlaicizer, one who laicizes. ˈlaicism (see quot. 1796).
1796Hist. in Ann. Reg. 185 This occasional exercise of the priestly function was denominated laicism, and represented as sacrilegious usurpation of the sacerdotal rights. 1884Athenæum 19 July 79/3 The laicizing of the staff of masters. 1890Ch. Rev. 22 Aug., First we had the laicising of the dons, then the marrying of the fellows. 1891Tablet 2 May 691 In five years the laicisers have squandered 15 millions of francs. 1893Nation (N.Y.) 24 Aug. 133/3 Certain laicizing Catholics. 1897Dowden Fr. Lit. 73 Whether it had its origin in a laicising of the irreverent celebration of the Feast of Fools. 1931Economist 4 July 13/1 The political antagonisms which the Spanish Revolution has let loose: the issues of Republicanism versus Monarchism, Syndicalism versus Capitalism, and Laicism versus Clericalism. 1966Ibid. 11 June 1178/2 Their priests, many of whom equate laicism with socialism, have been outraged by its [sc. the government's] plans to modify the present confessional structure of education. |