Associations to the word «Laicize»

Wiktionary

LAICIZE, verb. (transitive) To convert from church controlled to independent of the church; to secularize.
LAICIZE, verb. (transitive) To reduce from clergy to layman.
LAICIZE, verb. (intransitive) To convert to lay status.

Dictionary definition

LAICIZE, verb. Reduce to lay status; "laicize the parochial schools".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin