laicizev.
/ˈleɪᵻsʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈleɪəˌsaɪz/ transitive. 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.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > secularization > make secular [verb (transitive)]
worldlify1612
secularize1707
unspiritualizea1716
temporalize1828
disconsecrate1838
despiritualize1868
laicize1870
deconsecrate1876
desacralize1911
1870 Nonconformist 30 Nov. 1133 A measure tending..to laicise..the constitution and government of the Universities.
1882 Q. Rev. Oct. 491 Clerical fellowships have been extinguished, and the Headships of Houses laicised.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 June 3/2 The proposal to laicize the names of the Paris streets, and banish therefrom the word ‘Sainte’.
1896 Edinb. Rev. July 211 It is competent for the authority to laicise a public school.
Derivatives
ˈlaicizing n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > secularization > [noun]
secularization1706
deconsecration1867
laicizing1884
desacralization1959
1884 Athenæum 19 July 79/3 The laicizing of the staff of masters.
1890 Ch. Rev. 22 Aug. First we had the laicising of the dons, then the marrying of the fellows.
1893 Nation (N.Y.) 24 Aug. 133/3 Certain laicizing Catholics.
1897 E. Dowden Hist. Fr. Lit. 73 Whether it had its origin in a laicising of the irreverent celebration of the Feast of Fools.
ˈlaicizer n. one who laicizes.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > secularization > [noun] > person performing
secularizer1887
laicizer1891
1891 Tablet 2 May 691 In five years the laicisers have squandered 15 millions of francs.
ˈlaicism n. (see quot. 1796).
ΚΠ
1796 Hist. in Ann. Reg. 185 This occasional exercise of the priestly function was denominated laicism, and represented as sacrilegious usurpation of the sacerdotal rights.
1931 Economist 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.
1966 Economist 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.
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