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| Main Entry: | secular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not spiritual or religious |
| Synonyms: | civil, earthly, laic, lay, material, materialistic, nonreligious, profane, temporal, worldly, laical, nonclerical, of this world, unsacred |
| Notes: | sectarian means of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects, while secular means not specifically relating to religion or to a religious body or not religious or spiritual in nature |
| Antonyms: | godly, holy, religious, spiritual |
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| Main Entry: | lay |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amateur, not trained in a religious or other profession |
| Synonyms: | inexpert, nonprofessional, ordinary, secular, temporal, nonclerical, nonspecialist, unsacred |
| Antonyms: | ordained, professional |
| Main Entry: | layperson |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amateur person, not trained in religious or other profession |
| Synonyms: | believer, dilettante, follower, laic, member, neophyte, nonprofessional, novice, outsider, proselyte, recruit, secular, parishioner |
| Antonyms: | minister, ordained, priest, professional, reverend |
| Main Entry: | materialistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thinking mainly about physical things |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, carnal, earthy, greedy, material, mundane, possessive, profane, secular, sensual, temporal, terrestrial, banausic, earthly-minded, object-oriented, unspiritual |
| Antonyms: | spiritual, thrifty, ungreedy |
| Main Entry: | terrestrial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earthly |
| Synonyms: | earthy, global, mundane, physical, profane, prosaic, secular, temporal, worldly, earthbound, earthlike, sublunary, subsolar, telluric, terrene, uncelestial, unspiritual |
| Antonyms: | cosmic, heavenly, otherworldly |
| Main Entry: | layman |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amateur |
| Synonyms: | believer, dilettante, follower, laic, member, neophyte, nonprofessional, novice, outsider, proselyte, recruit, secular, lay person, parishioner |
| Antonyms: | professional |
| Main Entry: | earthly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physically concerning land or its inhabitants |
| Synonyms: | carnal, corporeal, global, human, material, mortal, mundane, physical, profane, secular, temporal, terrestrial, worldly, alluvial, geotic, in all creation, nonspiritual, subastral, sublunary, tellurian, telluric, terraqueous, terrene, uncelestial, under the sun, unspiritual |
| Antonyms: | heavenly, immaterial, spiritual, unearthly |
| Main Entry: | temporal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | material, worldly |
| Synonyms: | carnal, civil, earthly, earthy, fleshly, lay, materialistic, mortal, mundane, physical, profane, secular, sensual, terrestrial, unhallowed, banausic, nonsacred, nonspiritual, subcelestial, sublunary, unsacred, unsanctified, unspiritual |
| Antonyms: | mental, otherworldly, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | worldly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | material, nonreligious |
| Synonyms: | carnal, earthly, earthy, fleshly, human, lay, materialistic, mundane, natural, physical, practical, profane, secular, temporal, terrestrial, ungodly, sublunary, telluric, terrene |
| Antonyms: | immaterial, otherworldly, religious |
| Main Entry: | unhallowed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective1 |
| Definition: | unholy |
| Synonyms: | irreligious, secular, ungodly, deconsecrated, unblessed, unconsecrated, unsacred, unsanctified |
| Antonyms: | blessed, godly, holy, religious |
| Main Entry: | fleshly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bodily |
| Synonyms: | corporal, corporeal, earthly, human, material, mundane, physical, secular, terrestrial, worldly, of this world, somatic |
| Antonyms: | mentally, spiritual |
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| Main Entry: | church |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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abbatial, abbatical, antinomian, apostolic, apostolical, archiepiscopal, autocephalous, biblical, canonical, capitular, clerical, conventual, denominational, ecclesiastical, ecclesiological, ecumenical, episcopal, episcopalian, evangelical, evangelistic, hierarchical, hieratic, his eminence, his grace, his holiness, homiletic, in orders, inspired, kaaba, kerygmatic, laical, latitudinarian, lay, litaneutical, ministerial, monachal, monasterial, monastic, monkish, ordained, papable, papal, paparchical, pastoral, pontifical, prelatical, presbyterian, priest, priestly, prophetic, religious, sacerdotal, sacred, scriptural, sectarian, secular, supralapsarian, sybilline, syncretic, syncretical, temporal, textuary, the reverend, the right reverend, the very reverend, theandric, theocentric, theochristic, theocratic, theological, theopneust, theopneustic, trayf, ultramontane, unhouselled, vatic
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| Main Entry: | heterodox |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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heterodox, antiscriptural, apocryphal, bigoted, cacodoxical, dissident, ethnic, ethnical, fanatical, gentile, heathen, heathenish, heretical, iconoclastic, idolatrous, pagan, painim, pantheistic, polytheism, recusant, schismatic, sectarian, secular, superstitious, uncanonical, unchristian, unorthodox, unscriptural, visionary
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| Main Entry: | time |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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instant, short, Aprilian, Neolithic, acronical, actual, ago, ahead of time, all, alternate, ancient, annual, antiquated, antique, aoristic, aperiodic, archaic, around, atemporal, autumnal, belated, biannual, bicentennial, biennial, bimensal, bimillenary, bimonthly, bissextile, biweekly, brief, by turns, canicular, centennial, chronic, chronogrammatical, chronological, chronometrical, circadian, coeval, concurrent, constant, contemporaneous, contemporary, continual, continuous, current, cyclical, daily, dated, decennial, dendrochronological, diurnal, dominical, duodecennial, enneaeteric, ephemeral, equinoctial, erstwhile, estival, eternal, etesian, everlasting, every other, existing, fore, former, fortnightly, frequent, fugitive, genethliac, gnomonic, gumbled, hebdomad, hebdomadal, hebdomadary, hebetic, hibernal, hodiernal, horal, horary, hourly, immediate, immemorial, imminent, impermanent, infrequent, instantaneous, intercalary, interim, intermediate, intermittent, isochronal, last, last, last, lenten, lifelong, long, long, longstanding, matin, matinal, matutinal, menstrual, millenary, monthly, natalitious, new, night and day, nine, nocturnal, occasional, off, on time, ongoing, parmanent, part, penteteric, periodic, periodical, perpetual, plurennial, postpartum, preceding, prehistoric, preliminary, preprandial, present, present, previous, primaveral, primeval, prior, protracted, punctual, quadrennial, quarterly, quincentennial, quindecennial, quinquennial, quotennial, quotidian, rare, recent, recurrent, recurring, regular, regular as clockwork, remittent, remote, retrospective, rhythmical, round, seasonal, secular, seely, semiannual, semicentennial, semidiurnal, semimonthly, semipermanent, semiweekly, semiyearly, sempiternal, septennial, septimanal, serial, serotinal, sometime, sporadic, spur, stoundmeal, subsequent, successive, sudden, summary, tardy, temporal, temporary, terminal, tertian, that is, thitherto
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