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SECULARIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
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
Example:
Ataturk secularized Turkey
Synonyms:
secularise; secularize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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
Synonyms:
desacralize; secularize
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
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)
