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 ...

Adjective

(en-adj)

Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.

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* The construction worker made a vulgar suggestion to the girls walking down the street.

(classical sense) Having to do with ordinary, common people.

* Bishop Fell

It might be more useful to the English reader to write in our vulgar language.

* Bancroft

The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class.

* 1860 , G. Syffarth, "A Remarkable Seal in Dr. Abbott's Museum at New York", Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis? , age 265

Further, the same sacred name in other monuments precedes the vulgar name of King Takellothis , the sixth of the XXII. Dyn., as we have seen.