| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amateur, not trained in a religious or other profession |
| Synonyms: | inexpert, nonclerical, nonprofessional, nonspecialist, ordinary, secular, temporal, unsacred |
| Notes: | to lay is to place something; to lie is to recline |
| Antonyms: | ordained, professional |
| Main Entry: | temporal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | material, worldly |
| Synonyms: | banausic, carnal, civil, earthly, earthy, fleshly, lay, materialistic, mortal, mundane, nonsacred, nonspiritual, physical, profane, secular, sensual, subcelestial, sublunary, terrestrial, unhallowed, unsacred, unsanctified, unspiritual |
| Notes: | the word temporal derives from Latin and chronological is from Greek; temporal is 'having to do with time as opposed to eternity, having to do with earthly life as opposed to heavenly existence, having to do with time as opposed to space' - while chronological is 'arranged according to temporal order' |
| Antonyms: | mental, otherworldly, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | worldly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | material, nonreligious |
| Synonyms: | carnal, earthly, earthy, fleshly, human, lay, materialistic, mundane, natural, physical, practical, profane, secular, sublunary, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, ungodly |
| Antonyms: | immaterial, otherworldly, religious |
| Main Entry: | nonprofessional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not professional |
| Synonyms: | amateur, dilettantish, lay |
| Antonyms: | professional |