Many of the Ambrosian hymns and chants had become corrupted and secularized and therefore had lost their ecclesiastical dignity.
"The Story of Our Hymns"
Ernest Edwin Ryden
Although it originally had its roots in a religious feeling, racism became secularized and, by the middle of the nineteenth century, took on political overtones and tried to assume a scientific foundation.
"The Black Experience in America The Immigrant Heritage of America"
Norman Coombs
They secularized and stole the Church property of the Teutonic Order.
"German Problems and Personalities"
Charles Sarolea