laicize 

  1. 動詞
及物動詞:
使...(神職人員等)還俗
使...(神職人員等)凡人化
使...(機構、團體等)擺脫宗教色彩
讓外行人擔任...(公職等)
/此動詞過去式與過去分詞為"laicized"/
/現在分詞為"laicizing"/
/第三者單數現在式為"laicizes"/

    
                        
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                                The enlightened ruler must first of all laicize monarchy.                            
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                                We have also the opposite mistake of trying to laicize the clergy.                            
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                                Marthoma XII, did not terminate or laicize him, allowed to keep the vicar position and suspended malpan from religious duties; also refused priesthood to the deacons trained under malpan, due to diversified teachings.                            
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                                In fact, it is possible that the very source of the Dhammapada in the third century B.C.E. is traceable to the need of the early Buddhist communities in India to laicize the ascetic impetus of the Buddha's original words.                            
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                                power of the laity on the review boards; their claim that "vague or imprecise and therefore difficult to interpret" language is used to define sexual abuse when the footnote in Article 5 is one of the most precise and exact pieces of either documents (see page 2, paragraph 2) and their edited footnote on the terms which further clouds the definition by appealing only to the Decalogue and canon law; their reticence to allow non-ecclesial trials; their unwillingness to allow the names of abusers to be made public and their aversion to laicize convicted clerics and in certain circumstances allowing them to celebrate Eucharist and continue to don Roman collars illustrates to this educated community a real reluctance to recognize the real victims in this process in favor of preserving the hierarchy.                            
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