Sacred vs. Secular

Sacredadjective

Characterized by solemn religious ceremony or religious use, especially, in a positive sense; consecrated; made holy.

Sacredadjective

Religious; relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular

Sacredadjective

Spiritual; concerned with metaphysics.

Sacredadjective

Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable.

Sacredadjective

Not to be profaned or violated; inviolable.

Sacredadjective

(followed by the preposition "to") Consecrated; dedicated; devoted

Sacredadjective

(archaic) Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful.

Sacredverb

simple past tense and past participle of sacre

Sacredadjective

Set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a sacred place; a sacred day; sacred service.

Sacredadjective

Relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular; religious; as, sacred history.

Sacredadjective

Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable.

Sacredadjective

Hence, not to be profaned or violated; inviolable.

Sacredadjective

Consecrated; dedicated; devoted; - with to.

Sacredadjective

Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful.

Sacredadjective

concerned with religion or religious purposes;

Sacredadjective

worthy of respect or dedication;

Sacredadjective

made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use;

Sacredadjective

worthy of religious veneration;

Sacredadjective

(often followed by `to') devoted exclusively to a single use or purpose or person;

Sacredadjective

connected with God or a god or dedicated to a religious purpose and so deserving veneration

Sacredadjective

religious rather than secular

Sacredadjective

(of writing or text) embodying the laws or doctrines of a religion

Sacredadjective

regarded with great respect and reverence by a particular religion, group, or individual

Sacredadjective

regarded as too valuable to be interfered with; sacrosanct

Secularadjective

Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.

Secularadjective

Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.

Secularadjective

(Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.

Secularadjective

Happening once in an age or century.

Secularadjective

Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.

Secularadjective

(literary) Centuries-old, ancient.

Secularadjective

Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.

Secularadjective

(atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.

Secularnoun

A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.

Secularnoun

A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.

Secularnoun

A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.

Secularadjective

Coming or observed once in an age or a century.

Secularadjective

Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe.

Secularadjective

Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly.

Secularadjective

Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest.

Secularadjective

Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.

Secularnoun

A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.

Secularnoun

A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.

Secularnoun

A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.

Secularadjective

concerning those not members of the clergy;