单词 | secularize |
释义 | secularizev. 1. a. transitive. To make secular; to convert from ecclesiastical to civil possession or use; esp. to place (church property) at the disposal of the secular or civil power. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > [verb (transitive)] secularize1611 temporalize1828 the mind > possession > possessions > [verb (transitive)] > change from one kind of property to another > secularize secularize1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Seculariser, to secularize; to make secular, lay, temporall. 1657 T. Aylesbury Treat. Confession of Sinne 344 To surprize the possessions of the Church, and to Secularize her patrimony. 1715 London Gaz. No. 5345/3 They insist that this Provostship does not come under the Number of Ecclesiastical Benefices, having been Secularized. 1737 J. Ozell tr. F. Rabelais Wks. II. 251 (note) He was a Monk..[and] he [only] took the liberty to discover his true Name after he had seculariz'd himself, and was become, as it were, a Layman. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxii. 274 Secularizing..the Revenues appropriated to the Church. 1791 J. Mackintosh Vindiciæ Gallicæ i. 93 The Treaty of Westphalia secularized many of the most opulent benefices of Germany. 1861 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilization Eng. II. iii. 233 In their opinion, it was impious to secularise ecclesiastical property, and turn it aside to profane purposes. b. To laicize; to deprive of clerical character or remove from clerical control. ΚΠ 1846 English Rev. Sept. VI. 150 You will have deprived them of their occupation by secularizing the profession of a teacher. 1885 Observer 20 Dec. (Cassell) The work of secularizing the hospitals has been accomplished. 2. To make (a monk or monastic order) secular. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > monastic profession > secularization > make secular [verb (transitive)] secularize1683 unfrockify1694 unbrother1804 1683 [see secularized adj. at Derivatives]. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Secularize, to make Secular; as To Secularize a Monk. 1774 Ann. Reg. 1773 9/1 The Bishop of Liege having met with some opposition in his attempts to secularize a convent of monks. 1845 J. H. Newman Ess. Devel. Christian Doctr. 316 The successive Catholics of Seleucia had abolished Monachism and were secularizing the clergy. 3. To dissociate or separate from religious or spiritual concerns, to convert to material and temporal purposes; to turn (a person, his mind, etc.) from a religious or spiritual state to worldliness. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > secularization > make secular [verb (transitive)] worldlify1612 secularize1707 unspiritualizea1716 temporalize1828 disconsecrate1838 despiritualize1868 laicize1870 deconsecrate1876 desacralize1911 1707 G. Hickes Two Treat. i. ii. 131 So many Ministers of late are more than ever secularized in their Conversation. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Secularize,.. 2. To make worldly. 1831 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 44 353 A worldly-minded husband might have secularised and deadened her heart. 1866 H. P. Liddon Bampton Lect. (1875) iv. 190 The Jews secularized the Messianic promises. 1869 M. Pattison Serm. (1885) 173 We hear much of a crisis of the faith, of the perilous errors which are abroad in society, of the aggressions of science, of the attempts to secularise education. 1876 Times 8 Nov. 9/3 The policy of those Governments has become secularized. 1877 J. C. Cox Notes on Churches of Derbyshire II. 400 This chapel..had long been secularised, and..used as a malt~house. 4. intransitive. To adopt secular costume or habits. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > [verb (intransitive)] secularize1864 1864 T. Hughes in Reader 5 Nov. 567/2 Henrietta Caracciolo..secularized in everything except the black veil. Derivatives ˈsecularized adj. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [adjective] worldlyOE dryc1175 fleshlyc1175 of the world?c1225 secularc1290 timely1340 of hencec1384 uttermore1395 worldisha1400 profane1474 humanc1475 mundanec1475 mundial1499 carnal?1510 seculary1520 unghostly1526 worldly-minded1528 sensual1529 earthly-minded1535 civil1536 subcelestial1561 worldly-witted1563 secular-minded1597 ghostlessa1603 lay1609 mundal1614 non-ecclesiastical1630 unspiritual1643 wilderness1651 worldly-handed1657 outward1674 timesome1674 apsychical1678 secularized1683 hylastic1684 choical1708 Sadducee1746 gay1798 unspiritualized1816 secularizing1825 unreligious1832 secularistic1862 apneumatic1864 Sadduceeic1875 this-worldly1883 this world1889 1683 Apol. Protestants France iii. 16 The History of Calvinism, by Monsieur Maimbourg, a Secularised Jesuit. 1803 H. Repton Observ. Landscape Gardening xii. 177 It is..impossible to live in..the secularized abbey..preserving all the apartments to their original uses. 1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) v. xxxi. 525 Perhaps there is not a more thoroughly secularised population in Europe than the inhabitants of this ‘holy city’. 1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. II. 308 The secularized part of the nave. ˈsecularizing n. attributive. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [adjective] worldlyOE dryc1175 fleshlyc1175 of the world?c1225 secularc1290 timely1340 of hencec1384 uttermore1395 worldisha1400 profane1474 humanc1475 mundanec1475 mundial1499 carnal?1510 seculary1520 unghostly1526 worldly-minded1528 sensual1529 earthly-minded1535 civil1536 subcelestial1561 worldly-witted1563 secular-minded1597 ghostlessa1603 lay1609 mundal1614 non-ecclesiastical1630 unspiritual1643 wilderness1651 worldly-handed1657 outward1674 timesome1674 apsychical1678 secularized1683 hylastic1684 choical1708 Sadducee1746 gay1798 unspiritualized1816 secularizing1825 unreligious1832 secularistic1862 apneumatic1864 Sadduceeic1875 this-worldly1883 this world1889 1825 T. Chalmers Let. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1851) III. vi. 89 I feel the secularizing effect of worldly company. 1842 H. E. Manning Serm. v. 74 We find men..holding out against the secularising action of worldly things. ˈsecularizer n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > secularization > [noun] > person performing secularizer1887 laicizer1891 1887 Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 88 He was..not in the least a secularizer, but..a sanctifier. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < v.1611 |
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