0 past simple and past participle of secularize --
1 When something is secularized, religious influence, power, or control is removed from it: --
The abbey became secularized in the 16th century and in the beginning of the 17th century was turned into a secular lordship.
The priory was simply secularized and the work of the hospitals continued.
National festivities resumed, and, although some practices of the people became more secularized, most cold, formal religion came to an end.
It marks a transition from a strictly physicotheological reading of nature in his youth towards a secularized view on nature later on, transferring transcendental qualities to immanent features of nature.
One suspects that there would have been some crossover between the readerships of, for example, didactic godly lives, cheap criminal stories and the secularized life of a poetess.
The organization of the state and the administration of law and education were all secularized in the reform period between 1923 and 1935.
Somewhat ironically, the religious right originated amongst those fundamentalists sufficiently secularized to fight for their beliefs in the political arena.
In the realm of the dominant ideology, now 'secularized ', albeit still partisan, we can detect some of the same features of kingship and queenship.
