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Secularize


SEC'ULARIZE, v. t.

1. To make secular; to convert from spiritual appropriation to scular or common use; to convert that which is regular or monastic into secular; as, the ancient regular cathedral churches were secularized.

At the reformation, the abbey was secularized. Coxe, Switz.

2. To make worldy.