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Meaning Of Secular

  1. a.
    Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
  2. 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.
  3. a.
    Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly.
  4. 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.
  5. a.
    Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
  6. n.
    A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
  7. n.
    A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
  8. n.
    A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.



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