Secular things are not religious. Anything not affiliated with a church or faith can be called secular.
Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
Adjective S.
concerning those not members of the clergy; "set his collar in laic rather than clerical position"; "the lay ministry"; "the choir sings both sacred and secular music"
a.
Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
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.
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.
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 secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic
rules.
n.
A church official whose functions are confined to the
vocal department of the choir.
n.
A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
Secular
The secular year was kept but once a century.2.
New foes arise, Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains.4.
He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and greater regard for morals, both in the religious orders and the secular clergy.5.
I speak of folk in secular estate.
Secular
Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
Usage Examples
Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.
Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.
If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.
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Other Usage ExamplesI've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts, and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith.
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.
I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.
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