different between secular vs unhallowed
secular
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)
- Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
- Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
- (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.
- Happening once in an age or century.
- 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 curve in Fig. 15.5 will be subject to a secular upward shift, resulting in successively higher intersections with the ray and also in larger values of .
- 2005, Alpha Chiang and Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics (4th ed.), McGraw-Hill International, p. 501
- (literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
- (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.
- 2003, E. T. Jaynes, Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, Cambridge University Press, pages 234–235:
- (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 ...
- 2000, S. A. Dikanov, Two-dimensional ESEEM Spectroscopy, in New Advances in Analytical Chemistry (Atta-ur-Rahman, ed.), page 539
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)
- A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Burke to this entry?)
- A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Busby to this entry?)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- secular
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin saecul?ris. Doublet of seglar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /seku?la?/, [se.ku?la?]
Adjective
secular (plural seculares)
- secular
Derived terms
- secularizar
- secularmente
Further reading
- “secular” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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unhallowed
English
Etymology
un- +? hallowed
Adjective
unhallowed (comparative more unhallowed, superlative most unhallowed)
- Not hallowed or blessed; unholy.
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV scene i[1]:
- Gratiano:
- O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!
- And for thy life let justice be accused.
- Thou almost makest me waver in my faith,
- To hold opinion with Pythagoras,
- That souls of animals infuse themselves
- Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit
- Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter,
- Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,
- And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam,
- Infused itself in thee; for thy desires
- Are wolfish, bloody, starved, and ravenous.
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV scene i[1]:
Antonyms
- hallowed
Translations
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