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SECULAR ( See also: main branches of meaning
(1) lasting or occurring for a long indefinite See also: period of See also: time, and
(2) non-spiritual, having no concern with religious or spiritual matters
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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 secular cooling of the See also: earth, secular change of the mean See also: annual change of the temperature
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The word is thus used widely of that which is lasting or permanent
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In See also: medieval and See also: Late Latin, saecularis was particularly used of that which belongs to this See also: world, hence non-spiritual, See also: lay
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It is thus used, first to distinguish the " See also: regular " or monastic See also: clergy from those who were not bound by the See also: rule (See also: regula) of a religious See also: order, the 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 or ecclesiastical things, temporal as opposed to spiritual or ecclesiastical
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Thus See also: property transferred or alienated from spiritual to temporal hands is said to be " secularized "; " See also: secularism " (q.v.) is the See also: term applied in general to the separation of See also: state politics or administration from religious or See also: church matters; " secular
See also: education " is a See also: system of training in which definite religious teaching is excluded
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