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laicize (iou) and astigmatic dial (medicine)


laicize (iou)



laicize verb trans. Also laicise. L19.
[from LAIC + -IZE.]
Withdraw clerical character or status from; secularize; spec. place (a school etc.) under lay control; make (an office) tenable by members of the laity.
Pall Mall Gazette To laicize the names of the Paris streets, and banish..the word 'Sainte'. M. West When his priestly vocation no longer satisfied him he had asked to be laicised.
laici'zation noun L19.
laicizer noun L19.

astigmatic dial (medicine)


astigmatic dial


A diagram of radiating lines, used to test for astigmatism.