SECULAR
\sˈɛkjʊlə], \sˈɛkjʊlə], \s_ˈɛ_k_j_ʊ_l_ə]\
Definitions of SECULAR
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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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.
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Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
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A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
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A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
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A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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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.
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Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
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A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
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A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
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A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Pertaining to an age or generation: coming or observed only once in a century: (geol.) gradually becoming appreciable in the course of ages: pertaining to the present world, or to things not spiritual: not bound by monastic rules.
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A layman: an ecclesiastic not bound by monastic rules.
By Daniel Lyons
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Pertaining to, or lasting, an age, or century; worldly, not spiritual; not bound by monastic rules.
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Secularity.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual; worldly; temporal; non-regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; coming or observed once in a century or an age.
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An ecclesiastic not bound by monastic vows; a church officer whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Pert. to things not spiritual or holy; temporal; worldly; in R. Cath. Ch., not bound by monastic vows-applied to certain of the clergy; opposed to spiritual or ecclesiastical power; in geol., applied to great natural processes, whose results become appreciable only after the lapse of ages.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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