secular
adjective
[ ˈsɛkjʊlə ]
• not connected with religious or spiritual matters.
• "secular buildings"
Similar:
non-religious,
lay,
non-church,
temporal,
worldly,
earthly,
profane,
unsanctified,
unconsecrated,
unhallowed,
laic,
• (of clergy) not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order.
• of or denoting slow changes in the motion of the sun or planets.
• (of a fluctuation or trend) occurring or persisting over an indefinitely long period.
• "there is evidence that the slump is not cyclical but secular"
• occurring once every century or similarly long period (used especially in reference to celebratory games in ancient Rome).
secular
noun
• a secular priest.
Origin:
Middle English: secular (sense 1 of the adjective, sense 2 of the adjective) from Old French seculer, from Latin saecularis, from saeculum ‘generation, age’, used in Christian Latin to mean ‘the world’ (as opposed to the Church); secular (sense 3 of the adjective, sense 4 of the adjective, sense 5 of the adjective) (early 19th century) from Latin saecularis ‘relating to an age or period’.
