SECULAR
ADJECTIVES
1000 • LEWD of a thing: relating to or suitable for lay people; secular, not religious → obs.
………. • WORLDLY belonging to the secular world, as distinguished from the religious
………. • WORLD-WISE having secular knowledge, learned → obs.
1340 • TEMPORAL secular as opposed to sacred
1395 • UTTERMORE secular, lay → obs.
1400 • COMMON secular; lay; not sacred or holy
1474 • PROFANE not relating to what is sacred or biblical; unconsecrated, secular, lay
1483 • CARNAL not spiritual, in a negative sense; material, temporal, secular → arch.
1499 • LAWIC of a thing: secular → Sc. obs.
1520 • SECULARY secular → obs.
1536 • CIVIL non-ecclesiastical; non-religious; secular
1562 • LAIC pert. to a layman or the laity; non-clerical, secular
1609 • LAY unspiritual, secular, worldly → obs.
1657 • WORLDLY-HANDED occupied in worldly or secular employment → obs.
1848 • MUNDANE belonging to the world, as distinguished from the church; secular
1883 • SUPERSECULAR highly secular in character
1888 • SACRO-SECULAR partly sacred and partly secular
NOUNS
1000 • ELD an age of the world; a secular period → obs.
………. • WORLD-CRAFT a secular craft or art → obs.
………. • WORLDHOOD the secular world, as opposed to the religious world of the cloister → obs.
………. • WORLDLY WISDOM secular knowledge or learning → obs.
1395 • SECULARITY a being secular; occupation with secular affairs
1396 • TEMPORALTY temporal or secular things, affairs, business → obs.
1450 • CIVILITY secular power or dominion → obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
1000 • WORLD-MAN a secular or lay person, as opposed to an ecclesiastic → obs.
1225 • MAN OF THE WORLD a secular or lay person, as opposed to an ecclesiastic → obs.
1425 • WOMAN OF THE SIECLE a secular woman, a laywoman → obs.
1470 • WOMAN OF THE WORLD a secular woman, a laywoman
1603 • HUMANIST a writer on secular rather than divine matters → obs.
VERBS
1611 • SECULARIZE to make secular; to convert from ecclesiastical to civil possession or use
1640 • CIVILIZE to make moral or good by following a secular moral code → obs.
1864 • SECULARIZE to adopt secular costume or habits
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