See also:

• SECULAR (Lat. saecularis, of or belonging to an age or generation, saeculum)

SECULAR (See also:

• LAT

Lat. saecularis, of or belonging to an See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age or See also:

• GENERATION (from Lat. generare, to beget, procreate; genus, stock, race)

generation, saeculum)  , a word with two See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main branches of meaning (1) lasting or occurring for a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long indefinite See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, and (2) non-spiritual, having no concern with religious or spiritual matters . The first sense, which is directly taken from the classical Latin, is chiefly found in scientific applications, of processes or phenomena which are continued through the ages and are not regularly recurrent or periodical, e.g. the See also:

• SECULAR (Lat. saecularis, of or belonging to an age or generation, saeculum)

secular cooling of the See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth, secular See also:

• CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change of the mean See also:

• ANNUAL

annual change of the temperature . The word is thus used widely of that which is lasting or permanent . In See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval and See also:

• LATE

Late Latin, saecularis was particularly used of that which belongs to this See also:

• WORLD

world, hence non-spiritual, See also:

• LAY

lay . It is thus used, first to distinguish the " See also:

• REGULAR

regular " or monastic See also:

• CLERGY (M.E. clergie, O. Fr. clergie, from Low Lat. form clericia [Skean, by assimilation with O. Fr. clergie, Fr. clerge,from Low Lat. clericatus)
• CLERGY, BENEFIT OF

clergy from those who were not See also:

• BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound by the See also:

• RULE

rule (See also:

• REGULA

regula) of a religious See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order, the See also:

• PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish priests, the " seculars," who were living in the world, and secondly in the wide sense of anything which is distinct, opposed to or not connected with See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion or ecclesiastical things, temporal as opposed to spiritual or ecclesiastical . Thus See also:

• PROPERTY

property transferred or alienated from spiritual to temporal hands is said to be " secularized "; " See also:

• SECULARISM

secularism " (q.v.) is the See also:

• TERM

term applied in See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general to the separation of See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state politics or See also:

• ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration from religious or See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church matters; " secular See also:

• EDUCATION

education " is a See also:

• SYSTEM

system of training in which definite religious teaching is excluded .