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Definition of secular in English: secularadjective ˈsɛkjʊləˈsɛkjələr 1Not connected with religious or spiritual matters. Contrasted with sacred secular attitudes to death Example sentencesExamples - With all this talk of Christianity, it is easy to imagine government becoming less secular.
- I agree that education should be essentially secular.
- The truth is that, the milieu in which Popper grew up was militantly secular.
- Nowadays, of course, Christmas is a largely secular affair.
- So why in this secular age is a spiritual movement that seeks to eradicate the ‘self’ gaining ground?
- Her quest for the big answer leads her to accept Confucianism and nonreligious Buddhism as well as secular humanism.
- Over time, however, the values of psychotherapy have made inroads into religious as well as secular culture.
- Meanwhile, the attitudes of the younger generation are largely secular and wised up.
- What sort of meaning does marriage have in our modern secular society?
- But it did guarantee that in time American politics would largely become a secular matter.
- He argues for more state funding of religious institutions within an increasingly secular society.
- Primary education, having become universal and largely public, became overwhelmingly secular.
- No law says that advertisements have to be purely secular - except the law of supply and demand.
- To the contrary, the Court found that the School Board sought to advance two secular purposes.
- Seven years earlier, France had erected a government that was intended to be purely secular.
- Since that time, Bangladesh has been both less socialistic and less secular.
- Some of the more secular trends in humanism dared to defend happiness in the here and now.
- Although it had some religious overtones, Carnival has become a purely secular event.
- Since that time, however, the French Canadian community has become more secular.
- Most of the hoopla connected with the year 2000 was predominantly secular in origin and character.
Synonyms non-religious, lay, non-church, temporal, worldly, earthly, profane unsanctified, unconsecrated, unhallowed rare laic 2Christian Church
(of clergy) not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order. Contrasted with regular Example sentencesExamples - Overall the role of regulars was diminished and that of secular clergy and even laymen enhanced.
- The secular clergy from nearby parishes recruited maidens from needy or troubled homes.
- Individuals were chosen from different orders and secular clergy, but primarily they came from the Dominican Order.
- As the author notes, Maria's case was championed by the Jesuits, while her doubters were the secular or parish clergy.
- The rate of recruitment is probably better than that of the secular clergy, but this may be because a large percentage of the monks do not go on to priesthood.
3Astronomy
Of or denoting slow changes in the motion of the sun or planets. 4Economics
(of a fluctuation or trend) occurring or persisting over an indefinitely long period. there is evidence that the slump is not cyclical but secular Example sentencesExamples - There are also other secular trends that are generating ominous forecasts about the prospects for much of the Third World.
- But the weakness in the U.S. manufacturing sector does not reflect a simple secular trend.
- There are three spikes, but the secular trend is pretty obvious: down, down, down.
- But if one focuses on the company's positive secular trends, the picture is different.
- A few weeks ago, I opined that the market probably had reverted to the primary secular trend.
5Occurring once every century or similarly long period (used especially in reference to celebratory games in ancient Rome).
noun ˈsɛkjʊləˈsɛkjələr A secular priest. Example sentencesExamples - Most priests were seculars, living in the world and working amongst ordinary people.
- To the seculars, this text suggested that the group of Apostles was accustomed to holding a purse in common, and that they used the money from it both to maintain themselves and to give alms.
- Since 90 per cent of clerical émigrés were seculars, the loss of parish clergy was not far short of a half.
- In their dealings with the seculars, Marist clergy mistakenly gave the impression that they were ‘empire building’.
- Meanwhile, and without overt religious logic, the regime plundered the church, taxing the seculars heavily while abolishing the regular orders entirely and confiscating their wealth.
Derivatives noun sɛkjʊˈlarɪtiˌsɛkjəˈlɛrədi So the Medium Lobster salutes Virgina's attempt to put a stop to creeping secularity in our private arrangements. Example sentencesExamples - If the central institutions take a turn towards militant secularity, this will be unacceptable to many of the member states.
- Serving as a melting pot of old and modern cultures, Fuzhou Road afforded a haven for thought with its mystery, romance and secularity.
- Modern secularity's hostility to Christianity results, not in belief in nothing, but in belief in anything.
- A debate on whether the party must include non-Muslims to project its secularity is really uncalled for.
noun sɛkjʊlərʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n I do not believe the transformation of the Muslim world in a democratic direction can be achieved through compulsory secularization. Example sentencesExamples - Furthermore, its project of modernization, including secularization, also became a source of inspiration for many.
- Well, I have tended to believe that all the talk about the secularization of Irish culture over the past 20 years must be well-founded.
verb ˈsɛkjʊlərʌɪz [with object]1Convert from religious to secular possession or use. the convent had been secularized in the nineteenth century - 1.1 Dissociate or separate from religious or spiritual concerns.
Example sentencesExamples - To be sure, this was a religious motif which, in the eighteenth century, was secularized to the point of banality.
- But for a generation, we have been secularized in this country.
- He secularized his merchandise, gradually retiring the Bible stories in favor of genres that were selling to young postwar consumers.
- the government secularized the public school system
- an increasingly secularized society
adverb ˈsɛkjʊləliˈsɛkjələrli A critical question about faith-based initiatives is whether these programs work as well as or better than secularly run programs? Example sentencesExamples - Prostitution in a secularly governed country is not an infringement upon the right of select religious factions.
- The secularly minded writers and readers of newspapers, many of them suspicious of religious trappings, might call it a sham.
- I've done a lot of youth work not just through the church but secularly.
- Western nations are supposed to be secularly run societies, living by a separation of church and state.
Origin Middle English: 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); 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'. Use of the word in contexts where there is a contrast between religious life and civil or lay life is based on Latin saeculum ‘generation, age’. In Christian Latin this meant ‘the world’ as opposed to the Church. Use of secular in astronomy or economics (secular acceleration, secular trend) is early 19th century, from saecularis ‘relating to an age or period’.
Rhymes Benbecula, molecular, specular Definition of secular in US English: secularadjectiveˈsɛkjələrˈsekyələr 1Denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis. Contrasted with sacred Example sentencesExamples - Her quest for the big answer leads her to accept Confucianism and nonreligious Buddhism as well as secular humanism.
- The truth is that, the milieu in which Popper grew up was militantly secular.
- With all this talk of Christianity, it is easy to imagine government becoming less secular.
- Seven years earlier, France had erected a government that was intended to be purely secular.
- To the contrary, the Court found that the School Board sought to advance two secular purposes.
- Since that time, however, the French Canadian community has become more secular.
- Since that time, Bangladesh has been both less socialistic and less secular.
- Most of the hoopla connected with the year 2000 was predominantly secular in origin and character.
- Primary education, having become universal and largely public, became overwhelmingly secular.
- Some of the more secular trends in humanism dared to defend happiness in the here and now.
- Meanwhile, the attitudes of the younger generation are largely secular and wised up.
- Over time, however, the values of psychotherapy have made inroads into religious as well as secular culture.
- He argues for more state funding of religious institutions within an increasingly secular society.
- No law says that advertisements have to be purely secular - except the law of supply and demand.
- What sort of meaning does marriage have in our modern secular society?
- Nowadays, of course, Christmas is a largely secular affair.
- But it did guarantee that in time American politics would largely become a secular matter.
- Although it had some religious overtones, Carnival has become a purely secular event.
- I agree that education should be essentially secular.
- So why in this secular age is a spiritual movement that seeks to eradicate the ‘self’ gaining ground?
Synonyms non-religious, lay, non-church, temporal, worldly, earthly, profane 2Christian Church
(of clergy) not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order. Contrasted with regular Example sentencesExamples - Individuals were chosen from different orders and secular clergy, but primarily they came from the Dominican Order.
- The rate of recruitment is probably better than that of the secular clergy, but this may be because a large percentage of the monks do not go on to priesthood.
- The secular clergy from nearby parishes recruited maidens from needy or troubled homes.
- Overall the role of regulars was diminished and that of secular clergy and even laymen enhanced.
- As the author notes, Maria's case was championed by the Jesuits, while her doubters were the secular or parish clergy.
3Astronomy
Of or denoting slow changes in the motion of the sun or planets. 4Economics
(of a fluctuation or trend) occurring or persisting over an indefinitely long period. there is evidence that the slump is not cyclical but secular Example sentencesExamples - There are also other secular trends that are generating ominous forecasts about the prospects for much of the Third World.
- But the weakness in the U.S. manufacturing sector does not reflect a simple secular trend.
- But if one focuses on the company's positive secular trends, the picture is different.
- A few weeks ago, I opined that the market probably had reverted to the primary secular trend.
- There are three spikes, but the secular trend is pretty obvious: down, down, down.
5Occurring once every century or similarly long period (used especially in reference to celebratory games in ancient Rome).
nounˈsɛkjələrˈsekyələr A secular priest. Example sentencesExamples - To the seculars, this text suggested that the group of Apostles was accustomed to holding a purse in common, and that they used the money from it both to maintain themselves and to give alms.
- Most priests were seculars, living in the world and working amongst ordinary people.
- Meanwhile, and without overt religious logic, the regime plundered the church, taxing the seculars heavily while abolishing the regular orders entirely and confiscating their wealth.
- In their dealings with the seculars, Marist clergy mistakenly gave the impression that they were ‘empire building’.
- Since 90 per cent of clerical émigrés were seculars, the loss of parish clergy was not far short of a half.
Origin Middle English: secular (sense 1 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, secular sense 4 of the adjective, secular sense 5 of the adjective) (early 19th century) from Latin saecularis ‘relating to an age or period’. |