OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 5533

secular

/ˈsɛkjʊlə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
laico • mundano • secular • seglar
Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
secular • seglar
Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
secular • seglar
Not bound by the vows of a religious order.
Near-synonym: nonmonastic
secular clergy in Catholicism
secular
Happening once in an age or century.
The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next.
secular
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