secular

Definition

Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "Near-synonym: nonmonastic"
• "secular clergy in Catholicism"
• "The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next."

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