"secularize" meaning in English

See secularize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-secularize.wav Forms: secularizes [present, singular, third-person], secularizing [participle, present], secularized [participle, past], secularized [past]
Etymology: From secular + -ize. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|secular|-ize}} secular + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} secularize (third-person singular simple present secularizes, present participle secularizing, simple past and past participle secularized), {{tlb|en|American spelling|Oxford British spelling}} (American spelling, Oxford British English)
  1. (transitive) To make secular. Tags: British, English, Oxford, US, transitive Synonyms: secularise (english: non-Oxford British English) Hyponyms: deconsecrate & Thesaurus:desecrate Derived forms: desecularize, secularizable, secularizer, unsecularize Related terms: secular, secularization, laicize Translations (to make secular): laïcitzar (Catalan), secularitzar (Catalan), sekularisoida (Finnish), sekulaaristaa (Finnish), laïciser (French), séculariser (French), laicizar (Galician), secularizar (Galician), სეკულარიზებას უწევს (seḳularizebas uc̣evs) (Georgian), szekularizál (Hungarian), dí-eaglaisigh (Irish), laicizzare (Italian), secolarizzare (Italian), laicizar (Portuguese), laicificar (Portuguese), secularizar (Portuguese), laicizar (Spanish), secularizar (Spanish), sekularisera (Swedish), förvärldsliga (Swedish), סעקולאַריזירן (sekularizirn) (Yiddish), סעקוליאַריזירן (sekulyarizirn) (Yiddish), פֿאַרוועלטלעכן (farveltlekhn) (Yiddish)

Inflected forms

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