The difference between Divine and Secular

When used as nouns, divine means one skilled in divinity, whereas secular means a secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.

When used as adjectives, divine means of or pertaining to a god, whereas secular means not specifically religious.

Divine is also verb with the meaning: to foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.

check bellow for the other definitions of Divine and Secular

  1. Divine as an adjective:

    Of or pertaining to a god.

  2. Divine as an adjective:

    Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.

  3. Divine as an adjective:

    Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.

  4. Divine as an adjective:

    Beautiful, heavenly.

  5. Divine as an adjective (obsolete):

    Foreboding; prescient.

  6. Divine as an adjective:

    Relating to divinity or theology.

  1. Divine as a noun:

    One skilled in divinity; a theologian.

  2. Divine as a noun:

    A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.

  3. Divine as a noun (often capitalized, with 'the'):

    God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept.

  1. Divine as a verb (transitive):

    To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.

  2. Divine as a verb (transitive):

    To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.

  3. Divine as a verb (transitive):

    To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.

  4. Divine as a verb:

    To render divine; to deify.

  1. Secular as an adjective:

    Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.

  2. Secular as an adjective:

    Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.

  3. Secular as an adjective (Christianity):

    Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.

    Examples:

    "secular clergy in Catholicism"

  4. Secular as an adjective:

    Happening once in an age or century.

    Examples:

    "The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next."

  5. Secular as an adjective:

    Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.

    Examples:

    "The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena."

    "on a secular basis"

  6. Secular as an adjective (literary):

    Centuries-old, ancient.

  7. Secular as an adjective (astrophysics, geology):

    Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.

  8. Secular as an adjective (atomic physics):

    Unperturbed over time.

  1. Secular as a noun:

    A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Burke"

  2. Secular as a noun:

    A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Busby"

  3. Secular as a noun:

    A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.

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