Word Meanings - SECULARIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. 2. To convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property. At the Reformation the abbey was secularized. W. Coxe. 3. To

Additional info about word: SECULARIZE

1. To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. 2. To convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property. At the Reformation the abbey was secularized. W. Coxe. 3. To make worldly or unspiritual. Bp. Horsley.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SECULARIZE)

• Desecrate
• Profane
• secularize
• misuse
• abuse
• prostitute
• pollute

Related words: (words related to SECULARIZE)

• POLLUTE
  To render ceremonially unclean; to disqualify or unfit for sacred use or service, or for social intercourse. Neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die. Num. xviii. 32. They have polluted themselves with blood.
• MISUSE
  1. To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents. South. The sweet poison of misused wine. Milton. 2. To abuse; to treat ill. O, she misused me past the endurance of a block. Shak. Syn.
• MISUSER
  Unlawful use of a right; use in excess of, or varying from, one's right. Bouvier. (more info) 1. One who misuses. "Wretched misusers of language." Coleridge.
• SECULARIZE
  1. To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. 2. To convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property. At the Reformation the abbey was secularized. W. Coxe. 3. To
• MISUSEMENT
  Misuse.
• PROFANER
  One who treats sacred things with irreverence, or defiles what is holy; one who uses profane language. Hooker.
• ABUSER
  One who abuses .
• PROSTITUTE
  1. To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire. "Do not prostitute thy daughter." Lev. xix. 29. 2. To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute
• ABUSE
  1. To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority. This principle shoots rapidly
• PROFANE
  temple, i. e., without the temple, unholy; pro before + fanum temple. 1. Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as,
• POLLUTER
  One who pollutes. Dryden.
• DESECRATE
  To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; -- the opposite of consecrate. The clergy can not suffer corporal punishment without being previously
• PROFANENESS
  The quality or state of being profane; especially, the use of profane language.
• DESECRATER
  One who desecrates; a profaner. Harper's Mag.
• ABUSEFUL
  Full of abuse; abusive. "Abuseful names." Bp. Barlow.
• POLLUTED
  Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched. -- Pol*lut"ed*ly, adv. -- Pol*lut"ed*ness, n.
• PROFANELY
  In a profane manner. The character of God profanely impeached. Dr. T. Dwight.
• UNSECULARIZE
  To cause to become not secular; to detach from secular things; to alienate from the world.
• SELF-ABUSE
  1. The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties. 2. Self-deception; delusion. Shak. 3. Masturbation; onanism; self-pollution.
• DISABUSE
  To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right. To undeceive and disabuse the people. South. If men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves or artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition,