Definition of Laicise

1. Verb. Reduce to lay status. "Laicize the parochial schools"

Exact synonyms: Laicize
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify

Definition of Laicise

1. Verb. (alternative spelling of laicize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Laicise

1. to laicize [v -ICISED, -ICISING, -ICISES] - See also: laicize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Laicise

lahmacuns
lahmajo
lahmajos
lahmajou
lahmajoun
lahmajouns
lahmajous
lahs
lai-ty
laic
laical
laicality
laically
laich
laichs
laicise (current term)
laicised
laicises
laicising
laicism
laicisms
laicistic
laicities
laicity
laicization
laicizations
laicize
laicized
laicizes
laicizing

Literary usage of Laicise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1888)
"Again, on moral instruction, the same witness says :— " When it was resolved finally to suppress the power of the clergy and to laicise the ..."

2. Through Scylla and Charybdis: Or, The Old Theology and the New by George Tyrrell (1907)
"We do not then want to laicise the Church, but only to recognise the participation of the laity in that sovereign priesthood and authority from which those ..."

3. French and English: A Comparison by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1889)
"In France it is Disestablish- desired by the aggressive secular spirit which is doing all France"and it can to laicise the country thoroughly. ..."

4. A Short History of Christianity: From the French of Salomon Reinach by Salomon Reinach (1922)
"To twentieth-century France belongs the honour of renewing the march towards complete liberty, in her attempts to laicise society by the separation of ..."

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