SECULARIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does secularize mean? 

• SECULARIZE (verb)
  The verb SECULARIZE has 2 senses:

1. make secular and draw away from a religious orientation

2. transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control

  Familiarity information: SECULARIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECULARIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they secularize    ... he / she / it secularizes   
Past simple: secularized   
Past participle: secularized   
-ing form: secularizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make secular and draw away from a religious orientation

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

secularise; secularize

Context example:

Ataturk secularized Turkey

Hypernyms (to "secularize" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

secularization (the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

desacralize; secularize

Hypernyms (to "secularize" is one way to...):

transfer (cause to change ownership)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

secularization (transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession)