secular

CEFRB2

/ˈsɛkjʊlə/

adjective

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adjective
Not connected with religion or religious belief.
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adjective
Extra detail
Not bound by the vows of a religious order.

Examples

I believe that education should be secular, not rooted in religion.
What is the opinion of a cultured, secular and sincere man?

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

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adjective

Extra meanings

Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
Happening once in an age or century.

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secular clergy in Catholicism
Near-synonym: nonmonastic
Near-synonyms: centurial, centennial

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In this event, the s#92;phi(k) curve in Fig. 15.5 will be subject to a secular upward shift, resulting in successively higher intersections with the #92;lambdak ray and also in larger values of #92;bark.
2005, Alpha Chiang, Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics, 4th edition, McGraw-Hill International, page 501
The skewed distribution of productivity gains is thus less a new phenomenon than a secular trend.
2006, “Economics focus: Dividing the pie”, in The Economist
Laplace (1749–1827) "saved the world" by using probability theory to estimate the parameters accurately enough to show that the drift of Jupiter was not secular after all; the observations at hand had covered only a fraction of a cycle of an oscillation with a period of about 880 years.
2003, E. T. Jaynes, Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, Cambridge University Press, pages 234–235
On further examination, I found the clergy, in general, persons of moderate minds and decorous manners : I include the seculars, and the regulars of both sexes
1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC
The long reaches that were like one and the same reach, monotonous bends that were exactly alike, slipped past the steamer with their multitude of secular trees looking patiently after this grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings.
1899 April, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MII, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part III (Conclusion)

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English seculer, from Old French seculer, from Latin saeculāris (“of the age”), from saeculum.

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adjective

In many modern countries, the government is blank and separate from any church.