Secular
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Not spiritual; not ecolesiastical ; relating to affairs of the present world.
— Secular business. As used in Sunday laws, this term includes nil forms of activity in the business affairs of life, the prosecution of a trade or employment, and commercial dealings, such as the making of promissory notes, lending money, and the like. See Lovejoy v. Whipple, 18 Vt. 383, 46 Am. Dec. 157; Finn v. Donahue, 35 Conn. 217 ; Allen v. Deming, 14 N. H. 139, 40 Am. Dec. 179; Smith v. Foster, 4i N. H. 221.
— Secular clergy. In ecclesiastical law, this term is applied to the parochial clergy, who. perform their ministry in seculo (in the world), and who are thus distinguished from the monastic or "regular" clergy. Steph. Comm. 681, note.