Secularly

sec·u·lar  (sky-lr)

adj.

1. Worldly rather than spiritual.

2. Not specifically relating to religion or to a religious body: secular music.

3. Relating to or advocating secularism.

4. Not bound by monastic restrictions, especially not belonging to a religious order. Used of the clergy.

5. Occurring or observed once in an age or century.

6. Lasting from century to century.

n.

1. A member of the secular clergy.

2. A layperson.

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[Middle English, from Old French seculer, from Late Latin saeculris, from Latin, of an age, from saeculum, generation, age.]

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secu·lar·ly adv.