Word Meanings - DECONSECRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. -- De*con`se*cra"tion, n.

DEPRIVEMENT
Deprivation.
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
DEPRIVER
One who, or that which, deprives.
DEPRIVE
1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath
UNSECULARIZE
To cause to become not secular; to detach from secular things; to alienate from the world.