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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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SEC'ULARIZE, v. t.
1. To make secular; to convert from spiritual appropriation to scular or common use; to convert that which is regular or monastic into secular; as, the ancient regular cathedral churches were secularized.
At the reformation, the abbey was secularized. Coxe, Switz.
2. To make worldy.
To convert from
regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or
a monk.
To convert from spiritual to secular or
common use; as, to secularize a church, or church
property.
At the Reformation the abbey was secularized. W. Coxe. To make worldly or unspiritual.
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