Crossword clues for secular
secular
- Like Iran's government before the Ayatollah
- Worldly, not spiritual
- Like Labor Day, but not Christmas
- Lay
- Nonecclesiastical
- Nonclerical
- Laic
- Cryptic clues are mostly profane
- Lay awake initially beset by terrible ulcers
- Resistance introduced by Clause 18 associated with those who are 21
- Ulcers a problem over a very long period
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Secular \Sec"u*lar\, n.
(Eccl.) A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
--Burke.(Eccl.) A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
--Busby.A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
Secular \Sec"u*lar\, a. [OE. secular, seculer. L. saecularis, fr. saeculum a race, generation, age, the times, the world; perhaps akin to E. soul: cf. F. s['e]culier.]
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Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
The secular year was kept but once a century.
--Addison. Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe.
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Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly.
New foes arise, Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains.
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(Eccl.) Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest.
He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and greater regard for morals, both in the religious orders and the secular clergy.
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Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
I speak of folk in secular estate.
--Chaucer.Secular equation (Astron.), the algebraic or numerical expression of the magnitude of the inequalities in a planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a short period have been allowed for.
Secular games (Rom. Antiq.), games celebrated, at long but irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the like.
Secular music, any music or songs not adapted to sacred uses.
Secular hymn or Secular poem, a hymn or poem composed for the secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "living in the world, not belonging to a religious order," also "belonging to the state," from Old French seculer (Modern French séculier), from Late Latin saecularis "worldly, secular, pertaining to a generation or age," from Latin saecularis "of an age, occurring once in an age," from saeculum "age, span of time, generation."\n
\nAccording to Watkins, this is probably from PIE *sai-tlo-, with instrumental element *-tlo- + *sai- "to bind, tie" (see sinew), extended metaphorically to successive human generations as links in the chain of life. Another theory connects it with words for "seed," from PIE root *se- "to sow" (see sow (v.), and compare Gothic mana-seþs "mankind, world," literally "seed of men").\n
\nUsed in ecclesiastical writing like Greek aion "of this world" (see cosmos). It is source of French siècle. Ancient Roman ludi saeculares was a three-day, day-and-night celebration coming once in an "age" (120 years). In English, in reference to humanism and the exclusion of belief in God from matters of ethics and morality, from 1850s.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Not specifically religious. 2 temporal; something that is worldly or otherwise not based on something timeless. 3 (context Christianity English) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order. 4 Happening once in an age or century. 5 Continuing over a long period of time, long-term. 6 (context literary English) Centuries-old, ancient. 7 (context astrophysics geology English) Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularity, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field. 8 (context atomic physics English) Unperturbed over time. n. 1 A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules. 2 A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir. 3 A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
WordNet
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "secular".
Henry was strong enough only six years after the death of Thomas to win control over a vast amount of important property by insisting that questions of advowson should be tried in the secular courts, and that the murderers of clerks should be punished by the common law.
March, they discussed these visions, the continued fits of the afflicted, the inability of secular and religious leaders to end the crisis, and the seven unnamed witches mentioned by Tituba.
The Baath socialist regime, however, with its secular, anticlerical stance, was never comfortable with Shia religious leaders and their followers.
Warlike, secular, antimonarchist, they advocated a return to ancient Starbridge values and denounced the government of Argon Starbridge, which was sunk in bureaucracy and superstition.
In ever increasing measure it invested all the forms which this secular commonwealth required with apostolic, that is, indirectly, with divine authority.
Muslim minority, as symbolized by the highly controversial decision in 2003 to ban Muslim girls from wearing headscarves in schools, on the principle of the role of the state education system in preserving the secular and assimilatory values of the republic.
As long as the emperors retained the prerogative of bestowing on every vacancy these ecclesiastic and secular benefices, their cause was maintained by the gratitude or ambition of their friends and favorites.
Roman Church should first address himself to the chief Priest of that City, lest haply your clergy, being profaned by the litigation of the Forum, should be occupied in secular rather than religious matters.
Its magic for us is the magic that our culture has systematically marginalized in the rational, scientific, secular, and bureaucratic disenchantment of the world.
Whatever the troubadours and minnesingers may have done toward establishing a metrical melodic form of monophonic character was soon obliterated by the swift popularity of part singing and the immense vogue of the secular songs of the polyphonic composers.
By the same token, defeat helped establish Marxism and the Communist Party itself as sources of clear, secular, universal principles that transcended the disastrous, particularistic values of the imperial state.
It was at that point that she recommitted her life to Christ, gave up her secular career, and made the decision to write only books that would point her readers to him.
Max is filled with dread, caught between the extremes of fundamentalist religiosity and secular greed.
Without him they would have relapsed, very probably, into that fearfully widespread mass of indifference which is not touched by any form of Christianity or religious revival, but which had responded to the practical, secular teaching of the singularly powerful secularist leader.
He would almost have thought the Light was some sort of secularist plot against the churchstates all over the world, except that it seemed to have caused as much trouble in the secular world as it had in the theocracies.