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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
laicise .
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Examples
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Flanders do not intend to let their children be 'laicised' into the likeness of M. Jules Ferry and M. Paul Bert, without an effort to prevent it.
France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 William Henry Hurlbert 1861
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"laicised" hospitals of France, which I not long ago visited, from which the devoted nuns have been expelled to make way for hired nurses.
Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) William Henry Hurlbert 1861
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'laicised' the schools of France, throwing every symbol of religion -- in many cases literally -- into the street, forbidding, literally, the name of God to be mentioned within the walls of a school, and striking out every allusion to the Christian faith from the text-books supplied at the cost of the Christian parents of France to their children in the schools supported out of taxes paid by themselves.
France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 William Henry Hurlbert 1861
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In its annual report the NCSC also revealed that 37 clergy have been laicised, or dismissed from the clerical state, since 2001.
Pope's UK visit prompts increase in sex abuse allegations against church 2011
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It said this policy was "entirely consistent with the spirit of the Nolan recommendations", adding that a bishop had to apply to Rome for a priest to be laicised and "neither the duration nor the outcome of the application is in the bishop's control".
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The Church teaches that faithful, in such cases, can even ask to receive absolution from a Society priest or even a defrocked or laicised priest if a priest in good standing is also present.
RORATE CÆLI 2009
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The choir now became more laicised and self-contained.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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His belief that history had been cericalised, and required to be laicised, was regarded as peculiarly offensive in one who had been himself ordained.
The Life of Froude Paul, Herbert 1905
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His belief that history had been cericalised, and required to be laicised, was regarded as peculiarly offensive in one who had been himself ordained.
The Life of Froude 1894
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It was not until the mendicant orders, Franciscans and Dominicans, began their labours that preaching, as preserved to us, was truly laicised and popularised.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878
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