To convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property.
To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk.
He had been extremely friendly before his installation as bishop, but immediately afterwards he advised the king to secularize the Jesuits and to forbid the establishment of a novitiate.
It is impossible also for the state to secularize the institution, an act which would be paramount to confiscation.
The Moret decrees of 1870 secularize the institution, but the attempt is successfully blocked by the religious orders.
As outlined in the address of their Grand Master, their policy should be to obtain control of the schools, to introduce a bill which would make marriage merely a civil contract, and to secularize the cemeteries.
In Chili, the most Catholic of all South American countries, English and German Masons made many futile attempts to secularize all the institutions, and to degrade marriage into a merely civil contract.
To secularize Trinity College, by throwing open its Fellowships and Scholarships to all Students, irrespective of religious qualification.
I need scarcely add how mean and vindictive would be the spirit that would secularize Trinity College, in order to injure the Irish Protestants, without any corresponding benefit to the Irish Catholics.
Luther advised the Grand Master to secularize his Order, to confiscate its immense territories, and to proclaim himself Duke of Prussia.
The princes claimed the right of continuing to secularize Church lands within their territories as inseparable from their general right of providing for the religion of their subjects.
But if he were to speak the honest truth, he would at once say, "If you wish to secularize anything, begin by putting laymen in my place.
Recently the Prefect of the Department of Bouches du Rhone was summoned by the anti-clericals to secularize all the hospitals.
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy was another desperate and abortive attempt to nationalize and secularize the Church in France.
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