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单词 secular
释义 secular
 —secularly,  adv.  
 /sek"yeuh leuhr/,  adj.  
  1. of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.
  2. not pertaining to or connected with religion (opposed to sacred): secular music.
  3. (of education, a school, etc.) concerned with nonreligious subjects.
  4. (of members of the clergy) not belonging to a religious order; not bound by monastic vows (opposed to regular).
  5. occurring or celebrated once in an age or century: the secular games of Rome.
  6. going on from age to age; continuing through long ages.
  n.  
  7. a layperson.
  8. one of the secular clergy.
 [1250-1300; < ML secularis, LL saecularis worldly, temporal (opposed to eternal), L: of an age, equiv. to L saecul(um) long period of time + -aris -AR1; r. ME seculer < OF < L, as above]
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