adjective. undefined

adjective. Worldly rather than spiritual.

adjective. Not relating to religion or to a religious body; nonreligious.

adjective. Not bound by the full monastic rule of a religious order. Used of clergy.

adjective. Relating to or advocating secularism.

adjective. undefined

adjective. Occurring or observed once in an age or century, as games in ancient Rome.

adjective. Lasting or persisting for a long time.

adjective. Of or relating to characteristics of astronomical phenomena that change slowly over time.

noun. A member of the secular clergy.

noun. A layperson.

Celebrated or occurring once in an age or a century.

Going on from age to age; accomplished or taking place in the course of ages; continued through an indefinite but long period of time; not recurrent or periodical, so far as known: as, secular change of the mean annual temperature; the secular cooling or refrigeration of the globe; the secular inequality in the motion of a planet.

Living for an age or ages; permanent.

Of or pertaining to the things of time or of this world, and dissociated from or having no concern with religious, spiritual, or sacred matters or uses; connected with or relating to the world or its affairs; concerned with mundane or temporal matters; temporal; worldly; profane: as. secular affairs; the secular press; secular education; secular music.

Lay, as opposed to clerical; civil. See def. 4.

Living in the world, not in the cloister; hence, not bound by monastic vows or rules, nor subject to a monastic order: used especially of parish priests and other non-monastic clergy, as distinguished from the monastic or regular clergy.

Synonyms Temporal, etc. see worldly.

noun. l. A layman.

noun. An ecclesiastic, such as a parish priest, who lives in the world and not in a monastery, is not subject to any monastic order or rule, and is bound only to celibacy; a secular priest: opposed to religious or regular.

noun. An unordained church officer.

noun. A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.

noun. A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.

noun. A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.

adjective. Coming or observed once in an age or a century.

adjective. Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time.

adjective. Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly.

adjective. Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community.

adjective. Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.

adjective. the algebraic or numerical expression of the magnitude of the inequalities in a planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a short period have been allowed for.

adjective. games celebrated, at long but irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the like.

adjective. any music or songs not adapted to sacred uses.

adjective. a hymn or poem composed for the secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games.

adjective. undefined

adjective. Not specifically religious.

adjective. Temporal; something that is worldly or otherwise not based on something timeless.

adjective. Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.

adjective. Happening once in an age or century.

adjective. Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.

adjective. Centuries-old, ancient.

adjective. Of or pertaining to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion.

adjective. Unperturbed over time.

noun. A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.

noun. A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.

noun. A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.

adjective. of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows

adjective. not concerned with or devoted to religion

adjective. characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world

adjective. characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy

noun. someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person

"In their campaigns, new political groups have replaced the term "secular government" with "civil government" to try to finesse the issue."

1  cyclical  especially  eternal  everlasting  

abandonment to the secular arm  secular abbot  secular games  secular refrigeration  

economic  laic  lay  material  materialistic  

intermolecular  molecular  

Jewish  buddhist  civic  constitutional  democratic  

Philistine  annual  biannual  biennial  bimonthly