Definition of secular
- 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.