| slovo | definícia |
secular
(mass) | secular
- svetský, sekulárny |
secular
(encz) | secular,bez náboženství adj: Pino |
secular
(encz) | secular,sekulární adj: Pino |
secular
(encz) | secular,světský adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Secular
(gcide) | 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.
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The secular year was kept but once a century.
--Addison.
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2. 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.
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3. 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.
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New foes arise,
Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains.
--Milton.
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4. (Eccl.) 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.
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He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and
greater regard for morals, both in the religious
orders and the secular clergy. --Prescott.
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5. Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
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I speak of folk in secular estate. --Chaucer.
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Secular equation (Astron.), the algebraic or numerical
expression of the magnitude of the inequalities in a
planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a
short period have been allowed for.
Secular games (Rom. Antiq.), games celebrated, at long but
irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with
sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the
like.
Secular music, any music or songs not adapted to sacred
uses.
Secular hymn or Secular poem, a hymn or poem composed for
the secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games.
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Secular
(gcide) | Secular \Sec"u*lar\, n.
1. (Eccl.) A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by
monastic rules. --Burke.
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2. (Eccl.) A church official whose functions are confined to
the vocal department of the choir. --Busby.
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3. A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
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secular
(wn) | secular
adj 1: of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and
religious considerations
2: characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed
to the spiritual world; "worldly goods and advancement";
"temporal possessions of the church" [syn: worldly,
secular, temporal] [ant: unworldly]
3: not concerned with or devoted to religion; "sacred and
profane music"; "secular drama"; "secular architecture",
"children being brought up in an entirely profane
environment" [syn: profane, secular] [ant: sacred]
4: of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows; "the
secular clergy" [ant: religious]
5: characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy;
"set his collar in laic rather than clerical position"; "the
lay ministry" [syn: laic, lay, secular]
n 1: someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
[syn: layman, layperson, secular] [ant: clergyman,
man of the cloth, reverend] |
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nonsecular
(encz) | nonsecular,nesekulární nonsecular,nesvětský |
secular games
(encz) | secular games, n: |
secular humanism
(encz) | secular humanism, n: |
secular trend
(encz) | secular trend,dlouhodobý trend Zdeněk Brožsecular trend,dlouhodobý vývoj Zdeněk Brož |
secularisation
(encz) | secularisation,sekularizace n: Zdeněk Brožsecularisation,zesvětštění n: Zdeněk Brož |
secularise
(encz) | secularise, v: |
secularised
(encz) | secularised, adj: |
secularism
(encz) | secularism,sekularismus n: Zdeněk Brož |
secularist
(encz) | secularist,sekularista n: Zdeněk Brož |
secularization
(encz) | secularization,sekularizace n: Zdeněk Brožsecularization,zesvětštění n: Zdeněk Brož |
secularize
(encz) | secularize,odsvětit v: Zdeněk Brožsecularize,sekularizovat v: Zdeněk Brož |
secularized
(encz) | secularized, |
Secular
(gcide) | 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.
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The secular year was kept but once a century.
--Addison.
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2. 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.
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3. 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.
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New foes arise,
Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains.
--Milton.
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4. (Eccl.) 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.
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He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and
greater regard for morals, both in the religious
orders and the secular clergy. --Prescott.
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5. Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
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I speak of folk in secular estate. --Chaucer.
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Secular equation (Astron.), the algebraic or numerical
expression of the magnitude of the inequalities in a
planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a
short period have been allowed for.
Secular games (Rom. Antiq.), games celebrated, at long but
irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with
sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the
like.
Secular music, any music or songs not adapted to sacred
uses.
Secular hymn or Secular poem, a hymn or poem composed for
the secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games.
[1913 Webster]Secular \Sec"u*lar\, n.
1. (Eccl.) A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by
monastic rules. --Burke.
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2. (Eccl.) A church official whose functions are confined to
the vocal department of the choir. --Busby.
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3. A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
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Secular canon
(gcide) | canon \can"on\ (k[a^]n"[u^]n), n. [OE. canon, canoun, AS. canon
rule (cf. F. canon, LL. canon, and, for sense 7, F. chanoine,
LL. canonicus), fr. L. canon a measuring line, rule, model,
fr. Gr. kanw`n rule, rod, fr. ka`nh, ka`nnh, reed. See
Cane, and cf. Canonical.]
1. A law or rule.
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Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter. --Shak.
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2. (Eccl.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted
by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a
decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by
ecclesiastical authority.
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Various canons which were made in councils held in
the second centry. --Hook.
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3. The collection of books received as genuine Holy
Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of
moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible;
also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See {Canonical
books}, under Canonical, a.
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4. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious
order.
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5. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the
Roman Catholic Church.
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6. A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a
prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
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7. (Mus.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one
after another, at regular intervals, successively taking
up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda
(tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew,
thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the
strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.
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8. (Print.) The largest size of type having a specific name;
-- so called from having been used for printing the canons
of the church.
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9. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called
also ear and shank.
Note: [See Illust. of Bell.] --Knight.
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10. (Billiards) See Carom.
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Apostolical canons. See under Apostolical.
Augustinian canons, Black canons. See under
Augustinian.
Canon capitular, Canon residentiary, a resident member of
a cathedral chapter (during a part or the whole of the
year).
Canon law. See under Law.
Canon of the Mass (R. C. Ch.), that part of the mass,
following the Sanctus, which never changes.
Honorary canon, a canon[6] who neither lived in a
monastery, nor kept the canonical hours.
Minor canon (Ch. of Eng.), one who has been admitted to a
chapter, but has not yet received a prebend.
Regular canon (R. C. Ch.), one who lived in a conventual
community and followed the rule of St. Austin; a Black
canon.
Secular canon (R. C. Ch.), one who did not live in a
monastery, but kept the hours.
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Secular canoness
(gcide) | Canoness \Can"on*ess\, n. [Cf. LL. canonissa.]
A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.
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Regular canoness, one bound by the vow of poverty, and
observing a strict rule of life.
Secular canoness, one allowed to hold private property, and
bound only by vows of chastity and obedience so long as
she chose to remain in the chapter.
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Secular clergy
(gcide) | Clergy \Cler"gy\, n. [OE. clergie, clergi, clerge, OF. clergie,
F. clergie (fr. clerc clerc, fr. L. clericus priest) confused
with OF. clergi['e], F. clerg['e], fr. LL. clericatus office
of priest, monastic life, fr. L. clericus priest, LL.
scholar, clerc. Both the Old French words meant clergy, in
sense 1, the former having also sense 2. See Clerk.]
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1. The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the
service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction
from the laity; in England, usually restricted to the
ministers of the Established Church. --Hooker.
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2. Learning; also, a learned profession. [Obs.]
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Sophictry . . . rhetoric, and other cleargy. --Guy
of Warwick.
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Put their second sons to learn some clergy. --State
Papers (1515).
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3. The privilege or benefit of clergy.
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If convicted of a clergyable felony, he is entitled
equally to his clergy after as before conviction.
--Blackstone.
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Benefit of clergy (Eng., Law), the exemption of the persons
of clergymen from criminal process before a secular judge
-- a privilege which was extended to all who could read,
such persons being, in the eye of the law, clerici, or
clerks. This privilege was abridged and modified by
various statutes, and finally abolished in the reign of
George IV. (1827).
Regular clergy, Secular clergy See Regular, n., and
Secular, a.
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Secular equation
(gcide) | 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.
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The secular year was kept but once a century.
--Addison.
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2. 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.
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3. 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.
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New foes arise,
Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains.
--Milton.
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4. (Eccl.) 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.
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He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and
greater regard for morals, both in the religious
orders and the secular clergy. --Prescott.
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5. Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
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I speak of folk in secular estate. --Chaucer.
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Secular equation (Astron.), the algebraic or numerical
expression of the magnitude of the inequalities in a
planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a
short period have been allowed for.
Secular games (Rom. Antiq.), games celebrated, at long but
irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with
sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the
like.
Secular music, any music or songs not adapted to sacred
uses.
Secular hymn or Secular poem, a hymn or poem composed for
the secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games.
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Secular games
(gcide) | 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.
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The secular year was kept but once a century.
--Addison.
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2. 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.
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3. 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.
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New foes arise,
Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains.
--Milton.
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4. (Eccl.) 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.
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He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and
greater regard for morals, both in the religious
orders and the secular clergy. --Prescott.
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5. Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
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I speak of folk in secular estate. --Chaucer.
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Secular equation (Astron.), the algebraic or numerical
expression of the magnitude of the inequalities in a
planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a
short period have been allowed for.
Secular games (Rom. Antiq.), games celebrated, at long but
irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with
sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the
like.
Secular music, any music or songs not adapted to sacred
uses.
Secular hymn or Secular poem, a hymn or poem composed for
the secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games.
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Secular hymn
(gcide) | 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.
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The secular year was kept but once a century.
--Addison.
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2. 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.
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3. 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.
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New foes arise,
Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains.
--Milton.
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4. (Eccl.) 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.
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He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and
greater regard for morals, both in the religious
orders and the secular clergy. --Prescott.
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5. Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
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I speak of folk in secular estate. --Chaucer.
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Secular equation (Astron.), the algebraic or numerical
expression of the magnitude of the inequalities in a
planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a
short period have been allowed for.
Secular games (Rom. Antiq.), games celebrated, at long but
irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with
sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the
like.
Secular music, any music or songs not adapted to sacred
uses.
Secular hymn or Secular poem, a hymn or poem composed for
the secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games.
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Secular music
(gcide) | 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.
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The secular year was kept but once a century.
--Addison.
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2. 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.
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3. 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.
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New foes arise,
Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains.
--Milton.
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4. (Eccl.) 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.
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He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and
greater regard for morals, both in the religious
orders and the secular clergy. --Prescott.
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5. Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
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I speak of folk in secular estate. --Chaucer.
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Secular equation (Astron.), the algebraic or numerical
expression of the magnitude of the inequalities in a
planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a
short period have been allowed for.
Secular games (Rom. Antiq.), games celebrated, at long but
irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with
sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the
like.
Secular music, any music or songs not adapted to sacred
uses.
Secular hymn or Secular poem, a hymn or poem composed for
the secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games.
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Secular poem
(gcide) | 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.
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The secular year was kept but once a century.
--Addison.
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2. 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.
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3. 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.
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New foes arise,
Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains.
--Milton.
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4. (Eccl.) 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.
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He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and
greater regard for morals, both in the religious
orders and the secular clergy. --Prescott.
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5. Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
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I speak of folk in secular estate. --Chaucer.
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Secular equation (Astron.), the algebraic or numerical
expression of the magnitude of the inequalities in a
planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a
short period have been allowed for.
Secular games (Rom. Antiq.), games celebrated, at long but
irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with
sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the
like.
Secular music, any music or songs not adapted to sacred
uses.
Secular hymn or Secular poem, a hymn or poem composed for
the secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games.
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Secularism
(gcide) | Secularism \Sec"u*lar*ism\, n.
1. The state or quality of being secular; a secular spirit;
secularity.
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2. The tenets or principles of the secularists.
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Secularist
(gcide) | Secularist \Sec"u*lar*ist\, n.
One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith,
and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the
facts and influences which are derived from the present life;
also, one who believes that education and other matters of
civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a
religious element.
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Secularity
(gcide) | Secularity \Sec`u*lar"i*ty\, n. [Cf.F. s['e]cularit['e], LL.
saecularitas.]
Supreme attention to the things of the present life;
worldliness.
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A secularity of character which makes Christianity and
its principal doctrines distasteful or unintelligible.
--I. Taylor.
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Secularization
(gcide) | Secularization \Sec`u*lar*i*za"tion\, n. [Cf. F.
s['e]cularisation.]
The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered
secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular;
conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and
uses; as, the secularization of church property.
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Secularize
(gcide) | Secularize \Sec"u*lar*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Secularized;
p. pr. & vb. n. Secularizing.] [Cf. F. s['e]culariser.]
1. To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to
secularize a priest or a monk.
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2. To convert from spiritual to secular or common use; as, to
secularize a church, or church property.
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At the Reformation the abbey was secularized. --W.
Coxe.
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3. To make worldly or unspiritual. --Bp. Horsley.
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Secularized
(gcide) | Secularize \Sec"u*lar*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Secularized;
p. pr. & vb. n. Secularizing.] [Cf. F. s['e]culariser.]
1. To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to
secularize a priest or a monk.
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2. To convert from spiritual to secular or common use; as, to
secularize a church, or church property.
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At the Reformation the abbey was secularized. --W.
Coxe.
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3. To make worldly or unspiritual. --Bp. Horsley.
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Secularizing
(gcide) | Secularize \Sec"u*lar*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Secularized;
p. pr. & vb. n. Secularizing.] [Cf. F. s['e]culariser.]
1. To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to
secularize a priest or a monk.
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2. To convert from spiritual to secular or common use; as, to
secularize a church, or church property.
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At the Reformation the abbey was secularized. --W.
Coxe.
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3. To make worldly or unspiritual. --Bp. Horsley.
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Secularly
(gcide) | Secularly \Sec"u*lar*ly\, adv.
In a secular or worldly manner.
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Secularness
(gcide) | Secularness \Sec"u*lar*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being secular; worldliness;
worldly-mindedness.
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Supersecular
(gcide) | Supersecular \Su`per*sec"u*lar\, a.
Being above the world, or secular things. --Bp. Hall.
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Unsecular
(gcide) | Unsecular \Unsecular\
See secular. |
Unsecularize
(gcide) | Unsecularize \Un*sec"u*lar*ize\, v. t. [1st pref. un- +
secularize.]
To cause to become not secular; to detach from secular
things; to alienate from the world.
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secular games
(wn) | secular games
n 1: the centennial rites and games of ancient Rome that marked
the commencement of a new generation (100 years
representing the longest life in a generation); observances
may have begun as early as the 5th century BC and lasted
well into the Christian era [syn: Ludi Saeculares,
secular games] |
secular humanism
(wn) | secular humanism
n 1: the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-
realization through reason; rejects religion and the
supernatural [syn: humanism, secular humanism] |
secularisation
(wn) | secularisation
n 1: the activity of changing something (art or education or
society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the
control or influence of religion [syn: secularization,
secularisation]
2: transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession
[syn: secularization, secularisation] |
secularise
(wn) | secularise
v 1: make secular and draw away from a religious orientation;
"Ataturk secularized Turkey" [syn: secularize,
secularise] |
secularism
(wn) | secularism
n 1: a doctrine that rejects religion and religious
considerations |
secularist
(wn) | secularist
n 1: an advocate of secularism; someone who believes that
religion should be excluded from government and education |
secularization
(wn) | secularization
n 1: the activity of changing something (art or education or
society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the
control or influence of religion [syn: secularization,
secularisation]
2: transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession
[syn: secularization, secularisation] |
secularize
(wn) | secularize
v 1: make secular and draw away from a religious orientation;
"Ataturk secularized Turkey" [syn: secularize,
secularise]
2: transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or
control [syn: desacralize, secularize] |
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