the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
v. To convert from regular or monastic into secular.
v. To convert from spiritual to secular or common use.
v. To make worldly or unspiritual.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To make secular.
To make worldly or unspiritual; divest of religious observances or influences: as, to secularize the Sabbath; to secularize the press; to secularize education.
To convert to or imbue with secularism: as, to secularize the masses.
Also spelled secularise.
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v. make secular and draw away from a religious orientation
v. transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control
Word Usage
"Subsequent to that, Falwell placed some of the blame for 9/11 squarely on a range of Americans -- civil liberties groups, feminists, homosexuals, abortion rights supporters -- who have tried to "secularize" America."