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31secular — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. lay, temporal, profane, mundane, worldly, earthly. See irreligion, laity. Ant., religious, sacred. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. temporal, profane, earthly; see materialistic , worldly 1 . III (Roget… …
32secular — [ sɛkjʊlə] adjective 1》 not religious, sacred, or spiritual. 2》 Christian Church not subject to or bound by religious rule. Contrasted with regular. 3》 Astronomy of or denoting slow changes in the motion of the sun or planets. 4》 Economics (of a… …
33secular — adjective secular music Syn: nonreligious, areligious, lay, temporal, worldly, earthly, profane; formal laic Ant: holy, religious …
34secular — a. worldly; non religious; not belonging to religious order; lasting for centuries; occurring once in a century. ♦ secularize, v.t. make secular. ♦ secularity, n …
35Secular humanism — is a humanist philosophy that upholds reason, ethics and justice, and specifically rejects the supernatural and the spiritual as the basis of moral reflection and decision making. Like other types of humanism, secular humanism is a life stance… …
36Secular Jewish culture — embraces several related phenomena; above all, it is the culture of secular communities of Jewish people, but it can also include the cultural contributions of individuals who identify as secular Jews, or even those of religious Jews working in… …
37Secular ethics — is a branch of moral philosophy in which ethics is based solely on human faculties such as logic, reason or moral intuition, and not derived from purported supernatural revelation or guidance (which is the source of religious ethics). Secular… …
38Secular equation — Secular Sec u*lar, a. [OE. secular, seculer. L. saecularis, fr. saeculum a race, generation, age, the times, the world; perhaps akin to E. soul: cf. F. s[ e]culier.] 1. Coming or observed once in an age or a century. [1913 Webster] The secular… …
39Secular games — Secular Sec u*lar, a. [OE. secular, seculer. L. saecularis, fr. saeculum a race, generation, age, the times, the world; perhaps akin to E. soul: cf. F. s[ e]culier.] 1. Coming or observed once in an age or a century. [1913 Webster] The secular… …
40Secular hymn — Secular Sec u*lar, a. [OE. secular, seculer. L. saecularis, fr. saeculum a race, generation, age, the times, the world; perhaps akin to E. soul: cf. F. s[ e]culier.] 1. Coming or observed once in an age or a century. [1913 Webster] The secular… …
