meaning of secular
1. Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
6. A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
7. A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
8. A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
9. 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
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