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secular
/ˈsɛkjələɹ/
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What does secular mean?
adjective
- Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
- Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
- Not bound by the vows of a religious order.
More meanings (9)
adjective
- Happening once in an age or century.
- Continuing over a long period of time.
- (literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
- Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
- Unperturbed over time.
noun
- A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
- A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
- A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
proper noun
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsɛkjələɹ/
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When the object of the school was explained to them, they consented to receive secular instructions but objected to any religious teaching.
Newman says of some secular teachers that "they persuade the world of what is false by urging upon it what is true."
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Crowds are too much governed by unconscious considerations, and too much subject in consequence to secular hereditary influences not to be extremely conservative.
But I doubt if you could tell which little match girl had been brought up by undenominational religion and which by secular education.
Many organizations, charitable and ameliorative, divide their attention between the devotional and the secular well-being of the people whose interests they aim to further.