CURTIS Credit Union (finance) and secular (iou)

CURTIS Credit Union (finance)

CURTIS is a credit union with head office in SANDY HOOK, CT

secular adjective & noun. ME.
[In branch I from Old French seculer (mod. seculier) from Latin saecularis, from saeculum generation, age, in Christian Latin the world (esp. as opp. to the Church); in branch II immed. from Latin saecularis: see -AR1.]
A. adjective.
I.
Ecclesiastical. Of (a member of) the clergy: not bound by a religious rule; not belonging to or living in seclusion with a monastic or Other order. Also, of or pertaining to non-monastic clergy. Opp. regular. ME.
secular abbot Hist. a person not a monk, who had the title and part of the revenues but not the functions of an abbot. secular canon: see CANON noun2 1.
E. A. Freeman A secular, but soon to become a monastic, house. J. K. Galbraith A respected secular priesthood..to rise above questions of religious ethics.
a. Belonging to the world and its affairs as distinguished from the Church and Religion; civil, lay; non-religious, non-sacred. ME.
secular arm the authority of the civil power as invoked by the Church to punish offenders.
G. M. Trevelyan English compromise between the modern secular state and the old religious world.
b. Not concerned with religious subjects or devoted to the service of Religion; spec. (a) (of a writer, artist, Art form, etc.) not sacred; profane; (b) (of a school or Education) excluding religious instruction; not promoting religious belief. LME.
C. H. Parry Secular Music had long displayed..free use of chromaticisms.
c. transf. Of or belonging to the common or uneducated people. rare. L16-E17.
Caring for this world only (long rare); of or belonging to the present or material world as distinguished from the eternal or spiritual world; worldly. LME.
secular humanism (orig. & chiefly US) liberalism, esp. with regard to the belief that Religion should not be taught or practised within a publicly funded Education system.
G. Priestland A strong vein of secular scepticism.
Pertaining or adhering to the doctrine of secularism; secularist. M19.
secular society any of a number of associations formed in various English towns from 1852 onwards to promote the spread of secularist opinions.
II. Existing in time. Chiefly in before the secular worlds, before the beginning of time. Only in LME.
Occurring or celebrated once in an age, century, etc. Freq. in secular Games, secular plays below. M16.
secular Games, secular plays in ancient Rome, Games continuing three days and three nights and celebrated once in an age or period of 120 years.
Gibbon The philosopher..might have celebrated his secular festival.
Living or lasting for an age or ages. E17.
Quiller-Couch A little wood of secular elms.
Of process of change: having a period of enormous length, esp. of more than a year or decade; spec. in Astronomy, pertaining to or designating slow changes in the orbits or the periods of revolution of the sun or planets. E19.
secular equation any equation of the form |aijbij&blambda;| = 0 (i,j = 1,2,..., n), in which the left-hand side is a determinant, now used esp. in quantum mechanics.
Economics & Statistics. Of a fluctuation or trend: occurring or persisting over an indefinitely long period; not periodic or short-term, long-term. L19.
Scientific American The secular trend of workers migrating out of agricultural Jobs.
b. noun.
Ecclesiastical. A member of the secular clergy. ME.
A person who is engaged in the affairs of the world as distinct from the Church; a layman. ME.
W. S. Landor Seculars do not know half the wickedness of the world..until their pastors..show it them.
secularly adverb (a) as a lay person; in accordance with secular procedure; (b) in a worldly or non-spiritual manner; (c) Astronomy over a long period of time: LME.
secularness noun (rare) secularity, worldliness M16-M18.

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