- (a.) Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
- (n.) A secular ecclesiastic or one not bound by monastic rules.
- (n.) A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
- (a.) 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.
- (a.) 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.
- (a.) 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.
- (a.) Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
- (n.) A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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