Verb: desacralise dee'sa-kru,liz or dee'sey-kru,liz
Usage: Brit (N. Amer: desacralize)
Usage: Brit (N. Amer: desacralize)
- Transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control
"The government desacralised several church properties";
- desacralize, secularize, secularise [Brit]
Derived forms: desacralising, desacralises, desacralised
Type of: transfer