secularistn.adj.
/ˈsɛkjʊlərɪst/ 1. One of the secular clergy; a secular.Apparently an isolated use.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun]
God's maneOE
priestOE
clerkc1050
secularc1290
vicary1303
minister1340
divinec1380
man of Godc1384
kirkmana1400
man of the churchc1400
cockc1405
Ecclesiastc1405
spiritual1441
ministrator1450
abbé1530
reverend1547
churchman1549
tippet-captain?1550
tippet knight1551
tippet man1551
public minister1564
reading minister1572
clergyman1577
clerk1577
padre1584
minstrel1586
spiritual1600
cleric1623
cassock1628
Levite1640
gownsman1641
teaching elder1642
ecclesiastic1651
religionist1651
crape1682
crape-gown-man1682
man in black1692
soul driver1699
secularist1716
autem jet1737
liturge1737
officiant1740
snub-devil1785
soul doctor1785
officiator1801
umfundisi1825
crape-man1826
clerical1837
God-man1842
Pfarrer1844
liturgist1848
white-choker1851
rook1859
shovel hat1859
sky pilot1865
ecclesiastical1883
joss-pidgin-man1886
josser1887
sin-shiftera1912
sin-buster1931
parch1944
1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ I. Pref. 62 Of the Modern Fanaticism of Seditious Priests of all the Religions in Europe, viz... Of Secularists and Regularists [etc.].
2. An adherent of secularism.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > pragmatism > [noun] > secularism > adherent of
secularist1851
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [noun] > person
man of the world1535
worldling1549
worlding1567
earthling1600
earthman1748
this-worldian1830
secularist1851
hylicist1880
1851 Reasoner 3 Dec. We use the word Secularist as best indicating that province of human duty which belongs to this life.
1859 I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 219 India..whether governed by Christian men or by secularists, shall feel that it must amend its usages.
1876 W. E. Gladstone Relig. Thought v, in Contemp. Rev. June 22 The Secularist..does not of necessity assert anything but the positive and exclusive claims of the purposes, the enjoyments, and the needs, presented to us in the world of sight and experience.
3. An advocate of exclusively secular education.
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society > education > [noun] > systematic education > systems of > advocates of
Philanthropinist1842
examinationist1856
modernist1856
Pestalozzian1859
secularist1872
Froebelian1873
modernizer1889
universitarianism1889
Arnoldian1904
anthroposophist1916
co-educator1920
progressive1930
Montessorian1934
outward-bounder1961
society > faith > church government > laity > [noun] > jurisdiction of > in education > advocate of
secularist1872
1872 Q. Rev. Apr. 522 The attempt of the ‘Secularists’ to deprive the poor of religious teaching in the schools.
4. attributive and appositive (quasi-adj.).
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1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere III. vi. xxxviii. 166 The most notorious secularist lecturers held forth.
1890 Times 31 Jan. 9/3 This characteristic sample of secularist intolerance.
1904 D. P. Hughes Life H. P. Hughes xii. 295 Mr. Jacob Holyoake, the well-known Secularist leader.
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