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What does laicize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word laicize? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To convert from church controlled to independent of the church; to secularize.
  2. (transitive) To reduce from clergy to layman.
  3. (intransitive) To convert to lay status.
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In May, Bishop Wuerl asked the pope to laicize Mr. Cipolla, meaning he could not celebrate Mass.
They could be protracted affairs, like the struggle of the government of France under the Third Republic to laicize the education system.
There was an accelerated movement to laicize Church-run structures, with a redefinition of identity.

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