temporalizev.
rare.
transitive. To make temporal in character:
a. To secularize.
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society > faith > church government > laity > [verb (transitive)]
secularize1611
temporalize1828
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > secularization > make secular [verb (transitive)]
worldlify1612
secularize1707
unspiritualizea1716
temporalize1828
disconsecrate1838
despiritualize1868
laicize1870
deconsecrate1876
desacralize1911
1828 E. B. Pusey Hist. Enq. Rationalist Char. I. i. 146 They led to the ultimate temporalizing and annihilation of everything peculiarly Christian in the system.
b. To limit in time.
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the world > time > duration > have duration [verb (transitive)] > limit in time
temporalize1890
1890 Spectator 5 July Many who turned from a worship which seemed to localise and temporalise the Divine.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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