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Definition of secular : 1. A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
2. A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
3. A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
4. Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
5. Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.

Synonyms:

lay, materialistic, place, culture, terrene, sacrilegious, blase, earthbound, unconsecrated, blasphemous, earthen, layman, unsanctified, blue, telluric, terrestrial, sacred, layperson, tellurian, body, laic

mundane, earthy, physical, temporal, earthly, material, carnal, base

heathen, non-believing, non-religious, creedless, irreverent, worldly, profane, disbelieving, atheistic, non-practicing, ungodly, faithless, impious, agnostic, godless, unbelieving, pagan, undevout, nihilistic, irreligious

Usage examples:

• Its size and the fact that Roman material has been much re- used in its building have given rise to the tradition that it is a secular basilica applied to the purposes of a Christian church. - "The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church", A. Hamilton Thompson.
• But the secular education is limited. - "The Soul of a People", H. Fielding.
• How can you explain the fact, too patent to be concealed, that here in good Mrs. Yocomb's house, and on a Sunday afternoon, you are reading a secular newspaper? - "A Day Of Fate", E. P. Roe.