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.

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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 ...

Adjective

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Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.

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Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation

Spurious, artificial.

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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.

Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.

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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.

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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.

Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.

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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:whose false foundation waves have swept away

Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.

(lb) Out of tune.