(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.
