Definition of "laicized" [laicized]

• Simple past tense and past participle of laicize. (verb)
• Freed from ecclesiastical control (adjective)
• Secularized (adjective)

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• "Inspectors-General, and, in short, 'laicized' public education in France effectually as a machine to be controlled by the Imperial Government."
• "I have nothing to add except good f***ing riddance, and I hope he's laicized aka defrocked."
• "What I don't understand is why Cutie did not ask to be "laicized" and excused from his vows so that he could marry the woman."