1. to remove religious character or control from; to make secular or lay
Usage: British spelling (American: laicizes); third person singular present tense

Examples

• The government laicises education by removing prayer from public schools.
• The reform laicises the institution, transferring authority from clergy to elected officials.
• Modern societies increasingly laicise their legal systems.
• The policy laicises marriage by treating it as a civil contract rather than a sacrament.
• She argues that the movement laicises traditionally religious practices.