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secular
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
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