secular
English
/ˈsɛkjʊlə/, /ˈsɛkjələɹ/
adj
Definitions
- Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
- Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
- (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.
- Happening once in an age or century.
- Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.
- (literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
- (astrophysics) Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
- (atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French seculer derived from Latin saeculāris (of the age).
Origin
Latin
saeculāris
Gloss
of the age
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antisecular English
- desecularization English
- desecularize English
- intersecular English
- intrasecular English
- multisecular English
- nonsecular English
- palaeosecular English
- paleosecular English
- plurisecular English
- pro-secular English
- pseudosecular English
- secularisation English
- secularism English
- secularist English
- secularistic English
- secularity English
- secularizable English
- secularization English
- secularize English
- secularizer English
- secularly English
- secularness English
- semisecular English
- supersecular English
- unsecular English
- unsecularize English
- saeculāris Latin
- pluriséculaire French
- séculaire French
- séculier French
- secular Spanish, Castilian
- seglar Spanish, Castilian
- secular Portuguese
- seculer Old French
- secular Catalan, Valencian
- secularly
- unsecular
- secularist
- secularize
- secularism
- secularity
- nonsecular
- secularness
- pro-secular
- antisecular
- secularizer
- semisecular
- desecularize
- multisecular
- supersecular
- paleosecular
- unsecularize
- plurisecular
- intrasecular
- intersecular
- secularistic
- palaeosecular
- secularizable
- pseudosecular
- secularization
- secularisation
- desecularization