- to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- to change (clergy) from regular to secular.
- to transfer (property) from ecclesiastical to civil possession or use.
- to change from religious or sacred to secular functions, etc
- to dispense from allegiance to a religious order
- to transfer (property) from ecclesiastical to civil possession or use
- to transfer (an offender) from the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts to that of the civil courts for the imposition of a more severe punishment
