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English

Alternative forms

• sæcular (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English seculer, from Old French seculer, from Latin saecul?ris (“of the age”), from saeculum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?kj?l?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?kj?l??/

Adjective

secular (comparative more secular, superlative most secular)

1. Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
2. Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
3. (Christianity) 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.
   • 2005, Alpha Chiang and Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics (4th ed.), McGraw-Hill International, p. 501

     In this event, the ${\displaystyle s\phi (k)}$ curve in Fig. 15.5 will be subject to a secular upward shift, resulting in successively higher intersections with the ${\displaystyle \lambda k}$ ray and also in larger values of ${\displaystyle {\bar {k}}}$.
6. (literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
7. (astrophysics, geology) Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
   • 2003, E. T. Jaynes, Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, Cambridge University Press, pages 234–235:

     Laplace (1749–1827) "saved the world" by using probability theory to estimate the parameters accurately enough to show that the drift of Jupiter was not secular after all; the observations at hand had covered only a fraction of a cycle of an oscillation with a period of about 880 years.

8. (atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.
   • 2000, S. A. Dikanov, Two-dimensional ESEEM Spectroscopy, in New Advances in Analytical Chemistry (Atta-ur-Rahman, ed.), page 539

     The secular A and nonsecular B parts of hyperfine interaction for any particular frequencies ?_? and ?_? are derived from eqn.(21) by ...

Synonyms

• (not religious): worldly
• (centuries old): plurisecular, multisecular

Antonyms

• nonsecular
• (not religious): religious
• (not religious): sacred (used especially of music)
• (not bound by monastic vows): monastic
• (not bound by monastic vows): regular (as regular clergy in Catholicism)
• eternal, everlasting
• frequent
• unpredictable
• non-recurring
• (finance): short-term
• (finance): cyclical

Derived terms

• multisecular
• paleosecular
• plurisecular
• secularism
• secularist
• secularize
• secularly
• semisecular

Translations

Noun

secular (plural seculars)

1. A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.

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2. A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.

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3. A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.

Translations

References

• secular at OneLook Dictionary Search
• secular in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• secular in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Webster's English Dictionary

Anagrams

• Clauser, cesural, recusal

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin saecul?ris.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /s?.ku?la/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /se.ku?la?/

Adjective

secular (masculine and feminine plural seculars)

1. secular

Derived terms

• secularitzar
• secularment

Further reading

• “secular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “secular” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “secular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “secular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin saecul?ris.

Adjective

secular (plural seculares, comparable)

1. secular

Derived terms

• secularizar
• secularmente

Further reading

• “secular” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French séculaire, from Latin saecularis.

Adjective

secular m or n (feminine singular secular?, masculine plural seculari, feminine and neuter plural seculare)

1. secular

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin saecul?ris. Doublet of seglar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seku?la?/, [se.ku?la?]

Adjective

secular (plural seculares)

1. secular

Derived terms

• secularizar
• secularmente

Further reading

• “secular” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.