secular
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adjective- 1.
Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
Đồng nghĩa: areligious, temporal, worldly
- 2.
Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
Đồng nghĩa: chronological
- 3.
(Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a religious order.
Near-synonym: nonmonastic
secular clergy in Catholicism
Đồng nghĩa: nonmonastic
- 4.
Happening once in an age or century.
Near-synonyms: centurial, centennial
The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next.
Đồng nghĩa: centurial, centennial
- 5.
Continuing over a long period of time.
The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena.
on a secular basis
Đồng nghĩa: long-term, nonsecular
- 6.
(literary)Centuries-old, ancient.
Đồng nghĩa: plurisecular, multisecular, nonsecular
- 7.
(astrophysics, geology) Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
- 8.
(atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.
The secular A and nonsecular B parts of hyperfine interaction for any particular frequencies ν_α and ν_β are derived from eqn.(21) by ...
Danh từ
noun- 1.
A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
- 2.
A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
- 3.
A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
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From Middle English seculer, from Old French seculer, from Latin saeculāris (of the age), from saeculum.