Secular

Definition: Secular

Secular

Adjective

1. 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".

Date "secular" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Aerospace	Pertaining to long periods of time on the order of a century, as secular perturbations, secular terms. (references)
Geological	Referring to long-term changes that take place slowly and imperceptibly. Commonly used to describe changes in elevation, tilt, and stress or strain rates that are related to long-term tectonic deformation. For example, a mountain that is growing is getting taller so slowly that we cannot see it happen, but if we were to measure the elevation one year and then the next, we could see that it has grown taller. (references)
Mining	Said of a process or event lasting or persisting for an indefinitely long period of time, e.g., secular variation; progressive or cumulative ratherthan cyclic. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Secular

Synonyms: laic (adj), lay (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Clergy	Cenobite, conventual, abbot, prior, monk, friar, lay brother, beadsman, mendicant, pilgrim, palmer; canon regular, canon secular; Franciscan, Friars minor, Minorites; Observant, Capuchin, Dominican, Carmelite; Augustinian; Gilbertine; Austin Friars, Black Friars, White Friars, Gray Friars, Crossed Friars, Crutched Friars; Bonhomme, Carthusian, Benedictine, Cistercian, Trappist, Cluniac, Premonstatensian, Maturine; Templar, Hospitaler; Bernardine, Lorettine, pillarist, stylite.
Five	Centuple, centuplicate, centennial, centenary, centurial; secular, hundredth; thousandth;
Heterodoxy	Adjective: heterodox, heretical; unorthodox, unscriptural, uncanonical; antiscriptural, apocryphal; unchristian, antichristian; schismatic, recusant, iconoclastic; sectarian; dissenting, dissident; secular; (lay).
Laity	Adjective: secular, lay, laical, civil, temporal, profane.
Regularity of recurrence Periodicity	Hourly; diurnal, daily; quotidian, tertian, weekly; hebdomadal, hebdomadary; biweekly, fortnightly; bimonthly; catamenial; monthly, menstrual; yearly, annual; biennial, triennial; centennial, secular; paschal, lenten;
Teaching	Elementary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education; propaedeutics, moral tuition.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Secular

English words defined with "secular": Canonical life, churchwarden ♦ Haredi, Hieratic character, Holyday ♦ laic, lay ♦ priestcraft, Protopope ♦ Secular canon, Secular canoness, Secular equation, Secular games, Secular hymn, Secular music, secularise, secularised, secularize, secularized, Secularly, Secularness, soul, Supersecular ♦ temporal ♦ Unsecularize ♦ World Council of Churches, worldly. (references)

Specialty definitions using "secular": Arms of England ♦ City of Saints, cycle of fluctuation ♦ Donkey ♦ Eclipse ♦ Flesh ♦ geomagnetic secular variation ♦ IMPALE ♦ Lawns ♦ Malum Prohibitum, Medieval studies ♦ periodic terms, phreatic cycle, Pithom ♦ secular carbon dioxide trend, Secular Clergy, secular equilibrium, secular terms, secular trend, secular trend in climate, Secular trends, secular variation, secular variations. (references)

Etymologies containing "secular": Secle. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Secular" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (archaic, centenary, laic, laicize, lay, lay off, profane, secular, temporal, time worn, worldly), Romanian (age-old, ancient, century-old, lay, secular, time honored, time-honoured), Spanish (age-old, secular).

Domain	Title
Books	Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic (reference) The New Cold War?: Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society, No 5) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Council For Democratic & Secular Humanism Associate Membership (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Secular Meditation (reference) Religion of Secular Humanism (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Secular Choral Works-Volume. 139 (reference) Secular Music from Christian and Jewish Spain (reference) The Secular Solo Songs Of Henry Purcell Volume 2 (reference) Black Secular Vocal Groups, Vol. 2: The Thirties (1931-1939) (reference) Secular Vocal Works, Vol. 18 (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	'Sandra O'Connor, how plead you to the heinous charge of secular womanism?' / Oliphant.Credit: Library of Congress.		Support a "free democratic secular Palestine"? : sure, it's called "Israel".Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Alistair Cooke	Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Formerly we had votes in the chapter concerning secular affairs.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Many have support from foreign secular and religious non-governmental organizations. (references)
		The Mexican constitution establishes the government's obligation to grant all Mexicans free secular education through the public school system. (references)
Children	Bahrain	However, other citizens insist that the protection of children is a religious, not a secular, function and oppose greater government involvement. (references)
Civil Liberties	China	Many had support from foreign secular and religious NGO's. (references)
	Greece	Thrace has both Koranic and secular Turkish-language schools. (references)
Economic History	United Arab Emirates	Judicial--Islamic and secular courts. (references)
	Burkina Faso	Burkina Faso is an ethnically integrated, secular state. (references)
	Syria	The Ba'ath Party emphasizes socialism and secular Arabism. (references)
Human Rights	Kuwait	In the secular courts no groups are barred from testifying. (references)
	Kuwait	The secular court system tries both civil and criminal cases. (references)
Minorities	Tanzania	Fundamentalist Muslims severely criticized secular Muslims who drink alcohol or marry Christian women. (references)
Political Economy	Oman	In the Sultanate of Oman, Sultan Qaboos bin Sa'id Al Sa'id holds ultimate secular authority. (references)
	Maldives	The Maldivian legal system is derived primarily from Islamic law and is administered by secular officials, a chief justice and lesser judges on each of the 19 atolls. (references)
	West Bank	The composition of the PC reflects a range of political perspectives represented by distinct political groupings that include secular moderates, leftists, and Islamists. (references)
Political Rights	Turkmenistan	The 1992 Constitution declares the country to be a secular democracy in the form of a presidential republic. (references)
Women	Syria	In addition some secular laws discriminate against women. (references)
Worker Rights	Italy	Major secular and Catholic NGO's concerned with trafficking, among which Parsec--a social research institute--and Caritas are the most active, cooperate closely with the Government. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	FLESH, n. The Second Person of the secular Trinity.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Madison	1809-1817	Torrents of blood have been split in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by proscribing all difference in Religious opinion.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Secular" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.26% of the time. "Secular" is used about 948 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	99.26%	941	7,703
Noun (proper)	0.74%	7	133,076
Total	100.00%	948	N/A

Expressions using "secular": geomagnetic secular variation ♦ secular canon ♦ secular canoness ♦ secular change ♦ secular clergy ♦ secular education ♦ secular equation ♦ secular equilibrium ♦ secular games ♦ secular hymn ♦ secular music ♦ secular poem ♦ secular power ♦ secular school ♦ secular trend ♦ secular trend in climate ♦ Secular trends ♦ secular variation ♦ secular variations. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "secular": secular-minded.
	Ending with "secular": merely-secular.
	Containing "secular": radical-secular-socialist.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "secular"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		laik (laic, lay, layman, profane, temporal), jofetar (irreligious, profane). (various references)

Arabic		‏كاهن عالمي, ‏مدني (citified, civic, civil, civilian, urban, urbanized), ‏قرني (centennial, corneous, horny, podded), ‏علماني (laic, laity, lay, layman, temporal, worldly), ‏عالمي (cosmopolitan, ecumenical, global, globular, international, macroscopic, oecumenical, scholarly, universal), ‏العامي (annular), ‏دنيوي (earthly, laity, material, materialistic, mundane, temporal, terrestrial, worldly), ‏دنياوي. (various references)

Bulgarian		ставащ веднъж на сто години, свещеник (camister, cassock, chaplain, clergyman, dominie, minister, parson, pastor, presbyter, priest, sky pilot, vicar), светски (earthbound, earthly, fashionable, fleshly, laic, lay, material, mundane, profane, smart, social, society, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, unclerical, world, worldly), траен (abiding, durable, enduring, fast, keeping, lasting, secure, serviceable, settled, stable, standing, steadfast, stout, substantive), вековен (age-old, century-old, eternal, immemorial, primaeval), мирски (profane, temporal, unclerical), мирянин (layman), постоянен (abiding, changeless, chronic, constant, continuous, direct, firm, fixed, frequent, hourly, immovable, invariable, lasting, minutely, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, regular, settled, stable, standing, static, steadfast, steady, stock, substantive, sustained, unalterable, undeviating, unfailing, unidirectional, uniform, uninterrupted, unvaried), дълговечен (age long). (various references)

Chinese		世俗 (profane, worldly). (various references)

Czech		svìtský knìz, svìtský (mundane, profane, temporal), prastarý (age-old, immemorial), laik (dilettante, laic, layman). (various references)

Danish		sekular variation (geomagnetic secular variation, secular variation), sekulaert moment (secular torque), sekulaer variation (secular trend, secular trend in climate), sekulær variation (secular variation), sekulær vækst (secular growth), sekulær trend (secular trend), sekulær ligevægt (secular equilibrium), langtidstrend (secular trend). (various references)

Dutch		seculaire variatie (geomagnetic secular variation, secular variation), seculaire trend (secular trend, secular trend in climate), seculaire periodiciteit (secular cyclicity), seculair koppel (secular torque), seculair evenwicht (secular equilibrium). (various references)

Farsi		وابسته بدنیا, غیرروحانی (Lay), عامی (Illiterate, Laic, Layman), دنیوی (Earthy, Mundane, Terrestrial, Worldly). (various references)

Finnish		maallinen (earthly, mundane, temporal). (various references)

French		séculier (secularist). (various references)

German		säkular (timeless), weltlich (earthly, mundane, profane, profanely, secularly, temporal, terrestrial, worldlily, worldly), profan (impious, mundane, profanatory, profane). (various references)

Greek		κοσμικόσ (cosmic, laic, lay, mundane, secularistic, temporal, worldly). (various references)

Hebrew		חלו� י (laic, lay, profane, secularist, temporal, worldly), חולין (profane). (various references)

Hungarian		világi (carnal, laic, laical, lay, temporal, wordly, worldly). (various references)

Indonesian		sekuler, duniawi (earthy, worldly). (various references)

Italian		secolare (lay), profano (ignorant, lay, layman, outsider, profane), laico (laic, lay, layman, profanely, worldly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		無宗教 (withoutreligion). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		むしゅうきょう (withoutreligion). (various references)

Korean		세속 (Earthly). (various references)

Manx		seihlltagh (earthly, materialistic, mundane, profane, terrestrial, worldly), seihllt (earthy, profane, temporal, terrestrial, worldly), neuvonnagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		ecularsay

Portuguese		secular (archaic, centenary, laic, laicize, lay, lay off, profane, temporal, time worn, worldly), que dura muito, muito antigo (hoax), laico (laic, layman). (various references)

Romanian		secular (age-old, ancient, century-old, lay, time honored, time-honoured), profan (impious, layman, profane), lumesc (bodily, earth-bound, earthly, earthy, fleshly, mundane, profane, temporal, worldly), laic (laic, lay, layman, profane, worldly), foarte vechi (long standing). (various references)

Russian		вековой (age-old). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		svetovan (worldly). (various references)

Spanish		secular (age-old). (various references)

Swedish		världslig (earthly, fleshly, laic, mundane, worldly). (various references)

Turkish		sivil (civil, civilian, unmilitary), sürekli (abiding, assiduous, chronic, consistent, consistently, constant, continual, continuous, continuum, durable, enduring, everlasting, habitual, hourly, imprescriptible, incessant, invariable, lasting, non-stop, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, running, settled, standing, steady, sustained, unabating, unceasing, unremitting), yüzyıllardır süregelen, yüzyıllık, yüzyılda bir olan, laik (civil, laic, profane, unclerical), eskiden kalma (ancient, of old, old, pristine, time honored, time-honoured), dinsel olmayan, dünyevi (carnal, earth-born, earthly, earthy, fleshly, mundane, temporal, worldly), dünyasal (mundane, terrestrial, worldly). (various references)

Turkmen		dьnяewi (worldly). (various references)

Ukranian		священнослужитель, що належить о білого духовенства, світський (fashionable, genteel, laic, laical, lay, mundane, profane, social, terrestrial), що відбува�"ться раз за сто років (centennial), одвічний (age long, age-old, archetypal, dateless, primordial, unbegun, uncaused). (various references)

Vietnamese		trăm năm một lần trường kỳ, muôn thuở gi� , giáo sĩ thế tục. (various references)

Welsh		bydol (worldly). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	profana, profanas, profane, profanos, profanum, profanus. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	lai. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "secular": secularise, secularised, secularises, secularising, secularism, secularisms, secularist, secularistic, secularists, secularities, secularity, secularization, secularizations, secularize, secularized, secularizer, secularizers, secularizes, secularizing, secularly, seculars. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Secular" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: escuelas, eskuara, pecular, reculer, saccular, saecula, scolar, Seckler, secklow, seclusa, secolo, secual, secula, secullar, Seecoomar, Sekula, sekular, Sencler, Serula, Seselwa, sicula, siculum. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "secular" (pronounced se"kyuler)
6	-e" k y u l er	intermolecular, molecular.
5	-k y u l er	avuncular, binocular, cardiovascular, circular, curricular, extracurricular, gastrovascular, jocular, muscular, particular, perpendicular, semicircular, spectacular, testicular, unspectacular, vascular, vehicular, vernacular.
4	-y u l er	angular, annular, cellular, equiangular, globular, granular, intercellular, irregular, jugular, popular, rectangular, regular, singular, triangular, tubular, unicellular, unpopular.
3	-u l er	abler, alveolar, bachelor, Buckler, Candler, chancellor, consular, councilor, counsellor, counselor, dangler, dissimilar, embezzler, enabler, fiddler, Girdler, glandular, gobbler, hackler, humbler, hurdler, hustler, Idler, insular, jeweler, juggler, kindler, kittler, Littler, modular, needler, nestler, nodular, peninsular, rattler, reveler, saddler, settler, shuffler, Sidler, similar, simpler, Spindler, Stabler, stapler, stickler, subtler, swindler, tingler, Tinkler, titular, traveler, traveller, wrangler, wrestler.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: recusal.
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: carles, caules, causer, cesura, clause, clears, lacers, lucres, saucer, saurel, scaler, sclera, ulcers.
	-2 letters: acres, alecs, arcus, arles, aures, cares, carle, carls, carse, cauls, cause, clear, clues, cruel, cruse, cures, curls, curse, earls, ecrus, escar, lacer, laces, lares, laser, lears, luces, lucre, lures, races, rales, reals, rules, sauce, scale, scare, scaur, serac.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: arbuscle, auricles, caesural, carousel, caulkers, claquers, lacquers, lucarnes, recusals, seculars, specular.
	+2 letters: acervulus, arbuscles, barleducs, brucellas, caroluses, carousels, carrousel, caruncles, ceruleans, claqueurs, crushable, housecarl, larcenous, launchers, peculiars, rescuable, scrutable, scutellar, secularly, simulacre, subcellar, trauchles, ulcerates, vesicular.
	+3 letters: accursedly, calcareous, calentures, carbuncles, carrousels, caterwauls, censurable, circulates, curlpapers, curtailers, curtalaxes, curtilages, curveballs, graticules, housecarls, incurables, lackluster, lacquerers, lacustrine, lubricates, luciferase, mercurials, nucleators, operculars, parbuckles, peculators, pelycosaur, relacquers, relaunches, reluctates, revictuals, saucerlike, scrubbable, secularise, secularism, secularist, secularity, secularize, sepulchral, simulacres, specularly, speculator, subcellars, subcentral, subnuclear, superclass, superclean, superflack, superscale, testicular, trabeculas, unclearest, underclass, unscramble, versicular, victualers.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 65 63 75 6C 61 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100101 01100011 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#99 &#117 &#108 &#97 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 0063 0075 006C 0061 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
secular humanism	53	define secular	4
secular web	41	franciscan fraternity living order secular word	3
secular	36	secular home schooling	3
franciscan secular	13	christian music review secular	3
franciscan order secular	13	jew secular	3
secular music	8	secular trend	3
secular wedding	8	secular home school	3
bear market secular	7	secular vow wedding	3
humanist secular	7	art between christian dichotomy secular	2
organization secular sobriety	7	secular society	2
definition secular	6	government secular	2
council humanism secular	6	carmelites secular	2
christian music secular	5	religion secular	2
instituto secular	4	curriculum home schooling secular	2
secular home school curriculum	4	familia secular	2
islam secular	4	secular humanists	2
secular sonlight	4	cristiana familia secular y	2
secular curriculum	4	secular tendencia	2
library secular web	4	ceremony secular wedding	2
institute secular	4	art christian secular	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Secular

Definition: Secular

Secular

Adjective

Specialty Definitions: Secular

Synonyms: Secular

Synonyms within Context: Secular

Clergy

Five

Heterodoxy

Laity

Regularity of recurrence Periodicity

Teaching

Crosswords: Secular

Commercial Usage: Secular

Books

Periodicals

Theater & Movies

Music

Photo Album: Secular

Familiar Quotations: Secular

Alistair Cooke

Use in Literature: Secular

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Non-Fiction Usage: Secular

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Speeches: Secular

James Madison

Usage Frequency: Secular

Expressions: Secular

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Secular

Modern Translations: Secular

Albanian

Arabic

Bulgarian

Chinese

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Farsi

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Korean

Manx

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Swedish

Turkish

Turkmen

Ukranian

Vietnamese

Welsh

Ancestral Language Translations: Secular

Derivations & Misspellings: Secular

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Secular"

Anagrams: Secular

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Secular

53 65 63 75 6C 61 72

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01010011 01100101 01100011 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110010

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