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Verb: desacralize  dee'sa-kru,liz or dee'sey-kru,liz
  1. Transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control
    "The government desacralized several church properties";
    - secularize, desacralise [Brit], secularise [Brit]

Derived forms: desacralized, desacralizes, desacralizing

Type of: transfer

Encyclopedia: Desacralize