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SECULARIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does secularize mean?
• SECULARIZE (verb)
The verb SECULARIZE has 2 senses:
1. make secular and draw away from a religious orientation
2. transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control
Familiarity information: SECULARIZE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |




Past simple: secularized


Past participle: secularized


-ing form: secularizing


Sense 1
Meaning:
Make secular and draw away from a religious orientation
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
secularise; secularize
Context example:
Ataturk secularized Turkey
Hypernyms (to "secularize" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
secularization (the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
desacralize; secularize
Hypernyms (to "secularize" is one way to...):
transfer (cause to change ownership)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
secularization (transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession)
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