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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Secularize  \Sec"u*lar*ize\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Secularized}; 
  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Secularizing}.]  [Cf.  F.  s['e]culaiser.] 
  1.  To  convert  from  regular  or  monastic  into  secular;  as  to 
  secularize  a  priest  or  a  monk. 
 
  2.  To  convert  from  spiritual  or  common  use  as  to  secularize 
  a  church,  or  church  property. 
 
  At  the  Reformation  the  abbey  was  secularized.  --W. 
  Coxe. 
 
  3.  To  make  worldly  or  unspiritual  --Bp.  Horsley. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  secularized 
  adj  :  made  secular 




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