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| secular | |
| 1. adj. Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical. |  |
| 2. adj. Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless. | |
| 3. adj. (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order. | |
| secular clergy in Catholicism | |
| 4. adj. Happening once in an age or century. | |
| The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next. | |
| 5. adj. Continuing over a long period of time, long-term. | |
| The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena. | |
| on a secular basis | |
| 6. adj. (literary) Centuries-old, ancient. | |
| 7. adj. (astrophysics, geology) Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field. | |
| 8. adj. (atomic physics) Unperturbed over time. | |
| 9. n. A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules. | |
| 10. n. A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir. | |
| 11. n. A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman. | |
