secular

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Not connected with religion or spiritual matters.

   The country has a secular government that keeps religion out of politics.

2. 2
   adj

   Continuing or developing over a very long period of time.

   Economists pointed to a secular decline in manufacturing jobs.

3. 3
   adj

   Of clergy, not bound by the vows of a monastic order.

   The parish was run by a secular priest rather than a monk.

From Middle English seculer, from Old French seculer, from Latin saeculāris (“of the age”), from saeculum.

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