Definition of secular

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Secular (a.) Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.

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Sunday :: Sunday (n.) The first day of the week, -- consecrated among Christians to rest from secular employments, and to religious worship; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord's Day..
Ecclesiastical :: Ecclesiastical (a.) Of or pertaining to the church; relating to the organization or government of the church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts..
Secularizing :: Secularizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seculariz.
Secularist :: Secularist (n.) One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element..
Temporal :: Temporal (n.) Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal..
Secular :: Secular (a.) Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest..
Secularization :: Secularization (n.) The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property..
Confalon :: Confalon (n.) One of a fraternity of seculars, also called Penitents..
Secularize :: Secularize (v. t.) To convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property..
Secularism :: Secularism (n.) The state or quality of being secular; a secular spirit; secularity.
Temporalty :: Temporalty (n.) A secular possession; a temporality.
Temporalty :: Temporalty (n.) The laity; secular people.
Ghostly :: Ghostly (a.) Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor..
Secular :: Secular (a.) Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
Secular :: Secular (a.) Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe..
Secularism :: Secularism (n.) The tenets or principles of the secularists.
Profane :: Profane (a.) Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as, a profane place..
Sacred :: Sacred (a.) Relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular; religious; as, sacred history..
Secular :: Secular (a.) Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
Secularness :: Secularness (n.) The quality or state of being secular; worldliness; worldly-minded-ness.
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