laical

adjective

variants or laic
Definition of laicalnext
as in irreligious

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  1. irreligious
  2. secular
  3. lay
  4. pagan
  5. godless
  6. nondenominational
  7. nonsectarian
  8. temporal
Adjective
  • Finishing off the top 5 is religious flick The Forge with an irreligious weekend take-home of $6.6.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2024
  • From its earliest days in the nineteenth century and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, which at the time was led by irreligious Jews.
    Elliott Abrams, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2011
Definition of irreligious
Adjective
  • Because at roughly the same time, Christmas was also changing and becoming virtually two holidays: a spiritual holy day that focused on the Good News of the birth of Jesus Christ, and a secular commercial phenomenon that had little to do with Christianity at all.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Against these secular themes, Lee believes that small- and mid-cap stocks are best positioned as potential beneficiaries.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of secular
Adjective
  • Corsica, like much of France, has a long history of lay Catholic associations, known as confraternities.
    Reuters, CNN, 15 Dec. 2024
  • The general public wins in that all three have, unusually for academic economists, written extensively for lay audiences; Acemoglu and Robinson’s 2012 book Why Nations Fail was a bestseller, and Johnson has had several prominent books on financial regulation and innovation.
    Dylan Matthews, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Definition of lay
Adjective
  • Allen's defense team aggressively pushed their theory that Odinists, members of a pagan Norse religion hijacked by white nationalists, killed the girls during a sacrificial ritual in the woods.
    Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Defense attorneys for Allen have argued authorities arrested the wrong person and claimed that Odinism, a pagan Norse religion that has been linked to White supremacist groups, could be a theory connected to the killings, court documents show.
    Nicole Chavez, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of pagan
Adjective
  • Clearly the most godless Man of God Garfield has played — the one-two of playing a televangelist here and a Mormon cop in Under the Banner of Heaven makes for a religious diptych that’s uniquely American. tick, tick … BOOM!
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
  • His notoriously pornographic breakthrough novel, The Elementary Particles, trafficked in masturbation, flashing, orgies, and child rape but really amounted to a diatribe against a godless materialism.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of godless
Adjective
  • The school shares a 28-acre campus with Campus for Kids Learning Center, a program for infants through 4-year-old kindergarten, and the nondenominational City Church.
    Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Abbott continues the nondenominational representation through little Khadija, a Muslim student of Barbara’s.
    Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of nondenominational
Adjective
  • For decades in California, those dollars have only been permitted to go to schools that are nonsectarian.
    Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
  • By the 1970s, however, Christian private schools outnumbered the nonsectarian ones, which inspired political activism among Christian evangelists who had shown little political interest previously.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
Definition of nonsectarian
Adjective
  • In fact, the natural tendency for systems to move from low-entropy states to high-entropy ones seems to be the only thing that reliably imbues the universe with a consistent temporal direction.
    Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
  • To indicate aging, the number needs to be followed by the temporal unit (5 years or 12 months), otherwise the number is just the name of the product.
    Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of temporal
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