laicize verb trans. ['leɪɪsʌɪz] Also laicise. L19.
[from LAIC + -IZE.]
Withdraw clerical character or status from; secularize; spec. place (a school etc.) under lay control; make (an office) tenable by members of the laity.
Pall Mall Gazette To laicize the names of the Paris streets, and banish..the word 'Sainte'.
■ M. West When his priestly vocation no longer satisfied him he had asked to be laicised.

■ laici'zation noun L19.

■ laicizer noun L19.

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