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philistine | secular |

As adjectives the difference between philistine and secular

is that philistine is hostile to or lacking in appreciation for art or culture, or having no understanding of them while secular is not specifically religious.

As nouns the difference between philistine and secular

is that philistine is (philistine) while secular is a secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.

philistine

English

Alternative forms

* philistine (the adjective and noun senses pertaining to lack of appreciation of culture)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person from ancient Philistia.
  • *
  • Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice;
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines .}}
  • A person who lacks appreciation of art or culture.
  • * 1843 (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, ch. 4, ''Abbot Hugo
  • what could poor old Abbot Hugo do? A frail old man; and the Philistines were upon him, – that is to say, the Hebrews.
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
  • trying to separate everything from everything else is not just poor taste but is the mark of a total philistine and someone with no feeling for philosophy.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to the ancient Philistines .
  • Lacking appreciation of culture; also philistine .
  • * 1948 , 18th Century England'', in '' , page 124,
  • Walpole, moreover, left England not only more corrupt than he found it, but crasser and more Philistine .
  • * 1991 , Nick Doll, Canoeist's Guide to the North East , page 25,
  • Visitors to the area are strongly recommended to have a look around the castle, for even the most Philistine of wild water canoeists cannot fail to be impressed by the enormous armoury, fine paintings and wonderful furnishings that seem to outclass all other museums and castles in the North East.
  • * 2002 , Louis Auchincloss, The Heiress'', in ''Manhattan Monologues , page 33,
  • Miles was taken seriously by the great dames of Manhattan society and was not scorned by even the most Philistine of their husbands.

    secular

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not specifically religious.
  • Temporal; something that is worldly or otherwise not based on something timeless.
  • (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.
  • secular clergy in Catholicism
  • Happening once in an age or century.
  • The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next.
  • Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.
  • The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena.
    ''on a secular basis
  • * 2006 , The Economist, Economics focus: Dividing the pie
  • The skewed distribution of productivity gains is thus less a new phenomenon than a secular trend.
  • (literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
  • * 1899 ,
  • The long reaches that were like one and the same reach, monotonous bends that were exactly alike, slipped past the steamer with their multitude of secular trees looking patiently after this grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings.
  • (astrophysics) Of or pertaining to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion.
  • (atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.
  • * 2000 , S. A. Dikanov, Two-dimensional ESEEM Spectroscopy'', in ''New Advances in Analytical Chemistry (Atta-ur-Rahman, ed.), page 539
  • The secular A and nonsecular B parts of hyperfine interaction for any particular frequencies ?? and ?? are derived from eqn.(21) by ...

    Synonyms

    * (not religious) worldly

    Antonyms

    * nonsecular * (not religious) religious * (not religious) sacred (used especially of music) * (not bound by monastic vows) monastic * (not bound by monastic vows) regular (as regular clergy in Catholicism) * eternal, everlasting * frequent * unpredictable * non-recurring * (finance) short-term * (finance) cyclical

    References

    * Webster's English Dictionary

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
  • (Burke)
  • A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
  • (Busby)
  • A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
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