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Definition of Secularise

1. Verb. Make secular and draw away from a religious orientation. "Ataturk secularized Turkey"

Definition of Secularise

1. Verb. (alternative spelling of secularize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Secularise

1. [v -ISED, -ISING, -ISES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Secularise

Literary usage of Secularise

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

1. Essays, Chiefly Literary and Ethical by Aubrey De Vere (1889)
"It is most probable that to secularise the Irish Church property would be to ... secularise the one, and the confiscation of the other will follow soon; ..."

2. Essays, Chiefly Literary and Ethical by Aubrey De Vere (1889)
"It is most probable that to secularise the Irish Church property would be to ... secularise the one, and the confiscation of the other will follow soon; ..."

3. Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1853)
"There would be ample time for Parliament to deal with it when the Canadian Legislature should have proceeded, if indeed it did ever proceed, to secularise ..."

4. The Normans in Europe by Arthur Henry Johnson (1903)
"Abetted by the king, he ground down the people by fiscal oppression, and then deliberately set secularise and injure the Church. He introduced a the Church. ..."

5. The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture by Joseph Parker (1887)
"Those who would secularise the Sunday degrade the day as a certainty from a religious point of view, but there is no certainty that having degraded it at ..."

6. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) (1870)
"... has been accompanied (as a matter of course) by a proposal to secularise or ... The bulk of the nation answers point-blank that they will not secularise ..."

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