SECULARIZE

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk.

2.
v.

To convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property. At the Reformation the abbey was secularized. W. Coxe.

3.
v.

To make worldly or unspiritual. Bp. Horsley.