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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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