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secular
1. of an education, etc.
a. having no particular religious affinities
b. not including compulsory religious studies or services
2. (of clerics) not bound by religious vows to a monastic or other order
3. Astronomy occurring slowly over a long period of time
4. a member of the secular clergy

secular [′sek·yə·lər]
(engineering)
Of or pertaining to a long indefinite period of time.


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of Hawaii) describes how secularists have jumped on the anti-Islam hysteria generated after September 11 to take the offensive against religion generally, most often the Abrahamic monotheistic religions of the West.
7/20/2009 6:44:10 PM Two retired generals are among 56 people who have gone on trial in Turkey over an alleged coup plot in a case that has deepened the rifts between secularists and the country's Islamic-leaning government.
The investigation that led to the trial deepened the rift between Turkey's secularists and the AKP, the moderate offshoot of a now banned Islamist movement.
 
 
 
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