(transitive) to make worldly or world-like; to adjust to (the ways of) the world.

To dissociate or separate from religious or spiritual concerns, to convert to material and temporal purposes; to turn (a person, his mind, etc.) from…

transitive. To divest of spiritual qualities.

transitive. To make temporal in character. To secularize.

transitive. To take away the consecrated or sacred character of (with a formal ceremony). Also: to profane, desecrate.

transitive. To deprive of spiritual character; to render material.

transitive. To make lay; to deprive of a clerical character; to secularize, esp. to commit (a school, etc.) to the direction of laymen; to make (an…

transitive. To undo the consecration of; to deprive of sacredness, secularize.

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