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laicise

laicise is the alternative spelling of laicize.

Meaning of laicize

Verb

laicize (third-person singular simple present laicizes, present participle laicizing, simple past and past participle laicized)

  1. (transitive) To convert from church-controlled to independent of the church; to secularize.
    • They will laicise each of the schools in the district.
  2. (transitive) To reduce from clergy to layman.
    • Due to his controversial views the Vatican decided to laicise the priest.
  3. (intransitive) To convert to lay status.
    • The soup kitchen laicised, it moved out of the church and registered as an independent non-profit.

Forms of laicise

third-person singular presentlaicises
present participlelaicising
past participlelaicised
pastlaicised

Origin of laicise

From laic + -ise.

Questions about laicise

What is laicise the alternative spelling of?
Laicise is the alternative spelling of laicize.

Words near laicise in the dictionary

  1. Laich-kwil-tach
  2. Laiche
  3. Laiches
  4. Laichwiltach
  5. laicisation
  6. laicise
  7. laicised
  8. laicises
  9. laicising
  10. laicism
  11. laicisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: laicise (page history and authors); laicize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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