secular
/ˈsɛkjələɹ/ adjective C2- Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
- Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
- Not bound by the vows of a religious order. · Near-synonym: nonmonastic· secular clergy in Catholicism
- Happening once in an age or century. · Near-synonyms: centurial, centennial· The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next.
- Continuing over a long period of time. · The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena.· on a secular basis
- Centuries-old, ancient.
- Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
- Unperturbed over time.
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