Vocabulary Word
Word: secular
Definition: worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion; temporal
Definition: worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion; temporal
Sentences Containing 'secular'
And even in secular plays they venture to introduce miracles without any reason or object except that they think some such miracle, or transformation as they call it, will come in well to astonish stupid people and draw them to the play.
I shall conclude with observing, that no clergy are more celebrated for strictness of life and manners than the secular clergy of France, particularly the rectors or cures of Paris, who bear testimony to these impostures.
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