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secular

adj
/ˈsɛkjʊlə/UK/ˈsɛkjələɹ/CA

Etymology

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

  1. derived from saeculāris — “of the age”
  2. derived from seculer
  3. inherited from seculer

Definitions

  1. Not specifically religious

    Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.

  2. Temporal

    Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.

  3. Not bound by the vows of a religious order.

    • Near-synonym: nonmonastic
    • secular clergy in Catholicism
  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. Happening once in an age or century.

      • Near-synonyms: centurial, centennial
      • The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next.

    2. Continuing over a long period of time.

      • The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena.
      • on a secular basis
      • 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.

    3. Centuries-old, ancient.

    4. Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or…

      Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.

    5. Unperturbed over time.

      • The secular A and nonsecular B parts of hyperfine interaction for any particular frequencies ν_α and ν_β are derived from eqn.(21) by ...

    6. A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.

      • 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

    7. A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.

    8. A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.

    9. A surname.

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Derived

antisecular, intersecular, intrasecular, multisecular, palaeosecular, paleosecular, plurisecular, postsecular, presecular, pro-secular, pseudosecular, secular arm, secular clergy, secular equilibrium, secularisation, secularism, secularist, secularity, secularization, secularize, secularly, secularness, secular progressivism, secular religion, secular resonance, Secular Zionism, semisecular, sickular, supersecular, unsecular

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at secular. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at secular. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at secular

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA