secular
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
astrophysics
geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English seculer, from Old French seculer, from Latin saeculāris (“of the age”), from saeculum.
Inflected forms:
form: more secular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most secular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sæcular
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: seculars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sæcular
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
pos: adj
gloss: Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
pos: adj
gloss: Not bound by the vows of a religious order.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: nonmonastic
secular clergy in Catholicism
gloss: Happening once in an age or century.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: centurial, centennial
The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next.
gloss: Continuing over a long period of time.
pos: adj
examples: The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena.
on a secular basis
In this event, the s#92;phi(k) curve in Fig. 15.5 will be subject to a secular upward shift, resulting in successively higher intersections with the #92;lambdak ray and also in larger values of #92;bark.
The skewed distribution of productivity gains is thus less a new phenomenon than a secular trend.
gloss: Centuries-old, ancient.
pos: adj
tags: literary
examples: The long reaches that were like one and the same reach, monotonous bends that were exactly alike, slipped past the steamer with their multitude of secular trees looking patiently after this grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings.
gloss: Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
pos: adj
examples: Laplace (1749–1827) "saved the world" by using probability theory to estimate the parameters accurately enough to show that the drift of Jupiter was not secular after all; the observations at hand had covered only a fraction of a cycle of an oscillation with a period of about 880 years.
gloss: Unperturbed over time.
pos: adj
examples: The secular A and nonsecular B parts of hyperfine interaction for any particular frequencies ν_α and ν_β are derived from eqn.(21) by ...
gloss: A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
pos: noun
examples: On further examination, I found the clergy, in general, persons of moderate minds and decorous manners : I include the seculars, and the regulars of both sexes
gloss: A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
pos: noun
gloss: A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
pos: noun
Synonyms: areligious
civil
earthly
irreligious
laicist
laicistic
mundane
nonreligious
profane
secular
temporal
unconsecrated
unsanctified
worldly
Antonyms: eternal
everlasting
frequent
unpredictable
non-recurring
clerical
ecclesiastical
holy
intemporal
lay
nonprofane
nonsecular
nontemporal
religious
sanctified
spiritual
unholy
unprofane
unsecular
untemporal
unworldly
Related words: fin de siècle
secle
material
mundane
practical
quotidian
rational
atheistic
godless
Derived words: antisecular
intersecular
intrasecular
multisecular
palaeosecular
paleosecular
plurisecular
postsecular
presecular
pro-secular
pseudosecular
secular arm
secular clergy
secular equilibrium
secularisation
secularism
secularist
secularity
secularization
secularize
secularly
secularness
secular progressivism
secular religion
secular resonance
Secular Zionism
semisecular
sickular
supersecular
unsecular
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