secular definition - Dictionary

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sec·u·lar [ sékyələr ]

adjective

Definition:

1. not concerned with religion: not controlled by a religious body or concerned with religious or spiritual matters

secular education

2. not religious: not religious or spiritual in nature

secular music

3. not monastic: not belonging to a monastic order

secular clergy

4. occurring once in century: occurring only once in the course of an age or century

a secular change

5. astronomy geology occurring over long period: taking place over an extremely or indefinitely long period of time

noun (plural sec·u·lars)

Definition:

1. member of secular clergy: a member of the secular clergy

2. lay person: a member of the laity

[14th century. Via French< Latin saecularis< saeculum "world, generation"]

sec·u·lar·i·ty [ sèkyə lárrətee ] noun

sec·u·lar·ly adverb