secular
IPA: sˈɛkjʌɫɝ
noun
- A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
- A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
- A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
- A surname.
adjective
- Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
- Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
- (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.
- Happening once in an age or century.
- Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.
- (literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
- (astrophysics, geology) Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
- (atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.
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Examples of "secular" in Sentences
- The aim is secular and for the general public.
- The ideology of the party was strongly secular.
- It is one of the first secular schools in the country.
- It is the intersection of the Sacred and Secular orders.
- After the war, the secular communities revived the tradition.
- The interiors of the folly are deceivingly domestic and secular.
- That's the term of choice in the scholarly and secular literature.
- Iljumun is the boundary between the spiritual world and the secular world.
- The Kama Sutra is now perhaps the most prolific secular text in the world.
- Despite all its secularism, the Western world is the inheritor of Christendom.
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