SECULAR

PRONUNCIATION: (SEK-yuh-luhr)

MEANING: adjective: 1. Relating to worldly rather than religious matters.
2. Occurring once in an age or century.
3. Enduring over an extended period.
noun: 1. A member of clergy not bound by monastic vows.
2. A layperson.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old French seculer, from Latin saeculum (generation, age). Earliest documented use: 1290.
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SPECULAR - observational

SECULAW - a legal code unrelated to any religion

S.E.C. USAR - commission charged with regulating investments in the US Army Reserve