SECULAR (Lat. saecularis, of or belonging to an age or generation, saeculum)

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SECULAR (Lat. saecularis, of or belonging to an age or generation, saeculum) , a word with two main branches of meaning
(1) lasting or occurring for a

long

LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

indefinite period of time, and
(2) non-spiritual, having no concern with religious or spiritual matters. 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 earth, secular

change

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

of the mean annual

change

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

of the temperature. The word is thus used widely of that which is lasting or permanent. In medieval and

Late

LATE

Latin, saecularis was particularly used of that which belongs to this world, hence non-spiritual, lay. It is thus used, first to distinguish the "

regular

REGULAR

" or monastic clergy from those who were not bound by the

rule

RULE

(

regula

REGULA

) of a religious 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 religion or ecclesiastical things, temporal as opposed to spiritual or ecclesiastical. Thus property transferred or alienated from spiritual to temporal hands is said to be " secularized "; " secularism " (q.v.) is the

term

TERM

applied in general to the separation of state politics or administration from religious or

church

matters; " secular education " is a

system

SYSTEM

of training in which definite religious teaching is excluded.

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