secularlyadv.
/ˈsɛkjʊləli/ In a secular manner.in combination.1902 Daily Chron. 18 Feb. 6/6 A secularly-conducted State school.
1. As a secular or lay person; in accordance with secular procedure; non-ecclesiastically.
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society > faith > church government > laity > [adverb]
secularlyc1380
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 384 For in sum place..þe clergi occupieþ þe seculer lordeschip seculerli.
1395 J. Purvey Remonstr. (1851) 152 Not oon shal appropre seculerli to himsilf alle the profitis of the chirche.
c1440 Alphabet of Tales 342 A monke þat was..syttand prowdelie vppon a fayr palfray, and rydyng passand secularelie.
?1530 tr. J. Colet Serm. Conuocacion Paulis i. sig. Biv v Pristes nat lyuynge pristly but secularly.
1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1860) xxii. 239 As I held ecclesiastically by the one party, and secularly by the other, I found my position..a rather anomalous one.
1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights I. 214 One was..secularly dressed, but with an indelible clerical stamp.
1900 Nation 19 Mar. 975/1 Offences with which the Reformers dealt ecclesiastically are now dealt with secularly.
2. In a worldly manner; in a manner characterized by the absence of religion.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [adverb]
worldlyeOE
bodilyc1370
unghostlya1400
carnally1527
civilly1577
worldwarda1617
secularly1840
worldwards1845
materialistically1852
unspiritually1871
1840 G. S. Faber Primitive Doctr. Regeneration 180 The youth had received Baptism dissemblingly, secularly, impenitently, unworthily.
1893 E. L. Wakeman in Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 3 Aug. Possessing no secularly educative or diverting features.
3. Astronomy. Over a long period of time.
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the world > time > duration > [adverb] > for a long time
longeOE
longOE
longlyOE
longsomelyOE
yorec1275
lastingly1372
longsa1450
for longa1530
in length1566
with the longest1636
stayingly1648
eternally1664
sometime1801
chronically1854
forever1861
somewhile1864
for the duration1916
long-term1947
secularly1971
1971 Nature 24 Dec. 453/1 We might expect δf to be secularly dependent in the same way as He (∝ P—2).
1979 Nature 20 Sept. 200/1 Even in the worst case of deviation from thermal equilibrium, that is when the fully convective star expands adiabatically,..the system would still be secularly stable against mass exchange.
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