Secular(a.) Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
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.
Secular(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.
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.
Secular(a.) Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
Secular(n.) A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
Secular(n.) A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
Secular(n.) A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
Secularism(n.) The state or quality of being secular; a secular spirit; secularity.
Secularism(n.) The tenets or principles of the secularists.
Secularity(n.) Supreme attention to the things of the present life; worldliness.
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.
Secularize(v. t.) To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk.
Secularize(v. t.) To convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property.
Secularize(v. t.) To make worldly or unspiritual.
Secularized(imp. & p. p.) of Secularize
Secularizing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Secularize
Secularly(adv.) In a secular or worldly manner.
Secularness(n.) The quality or state of being secular; worldliness; worldly-minded-ness.
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