supersecular

adj

supersecular

adj

Etymology From super- + secular.

1

Above the world, or secular things.

  • Let us (ſaith he [Gregory of Nazianzus]) celebrate this feaſt, not in a panegyrical but divine, not in a vvorldly but ſuperſecular manner; not regarding ſo much our ſelves or ours, as the vvorſhip of Chriſt, &c.a. 1657, Joseph Hall, “A Letter for the Observation of the Feast of Christ’s Nativity”, in The Shaking of the Olive-Tree. The Remaining Works of that Incomparable Prelate Joseph Hall, D.D. […], London: […] J. Cadwel for J[ohn] Crooke, […], published 1660, →OCLC, page 302:

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