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

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