Secular

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.

II. Secular ·noun A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.

III. Secular ·adj Coming or observed once in an age or a century.

IV. Secular ·noun A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.

V. Secular ·noun A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.

VI. Secular ·adj 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.

VII. Secular ·adj 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.

VIII. Secular ·adj 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.