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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The prospect of an Islamist president--or, more specifically, a headscarfed first lady--has sent many old secularists into meltdown, while the prospect of electoral manipulation by military and state officials has drawn dark warnings from Islamist stalwarts. A secularist paper-tiger dictator, despised by the Islamist lunatics behind the September II attacks. The big question in the current Anglican crisis is whether the battle over Robinson, for all its emphasis on issues of sexuality that past generations could barely have imagined, is just another reflection of that age-old battle, or whether the ECUSA has rejected all Anglican orthodoxy in the pursuit of a sincere but secularist devotion to sexual equality. |
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