Defn: One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element.
SECULARITY
Sec`u*lar"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf.F. sécularité, LL. saecularitas.]
Defn: Supreme attention to the things of the present life;
worldliness.
A secularity of character which makes Christianity and its principal
doctrines distasteful or unintelligible. I. Taylor.
SECULARIZATION
Sec`u*lar*i*za"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. sécularisation.]
Defn: The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property.
SECULARIZE
Sec"u*lar*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Secularized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Secularizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. séculaiser.]
1. To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk.
2. To convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property. At the Reformation the abbey was secularized. W. Coxe.
3. To make worldly or unspiritual. Bp. Horsley.
SECULARLY
Sec"u*lar*ly, adv.