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Of or pertaining to the scapula or the shoulder Scapular arch (Anat.), the pectoral arch. See under pectoral. -- Scapular region, or Scapular tract (Zoöl.), a definite longitudinal area over the shoulder and along each side of the back of a bird, from which the scapular feathers arise.

A loose sleeveless vestment falling in front and behind, worn by certain religious orders and devout persons.

Same as Scapular, a.

tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student. I am no breeching scholar in the schools. Shak.

Scholarship. [Obs.] . Jonson.

Scholarly. Bacon.

Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique. -- adv.

The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning. A man of my master's . . . great scholarship. Pope.

Pertaining to, or surrounding, scrobiculæ; as, scrobicular tubercles.

A genus of coarse herbs having small flowers in panicled cymes; figwort.

Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of gamopetalous plants (Scrophulariaceæ, or Scrophularineæ), usually having irregular didynamous flowers and a two-celled pod. The order includes the mullein, foxglove, snapdragon, figwort, painted cup, yellow rattle, and some exotic trees, as the Paulownia.…

One of a family (Scyllaridæ) of macruran Crustacea, remarkable for the depressed form of the body, and the broad, flat antennæ. Also used adjectively.

The rock pipit (Anthus obscurus).

Coming or observed once in an age or a century. The secular year was kept but once a century. Addison.

The state or quality of being secular; a secular spirit; secularity.

One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element.…

Supreme attention to the things of the present life; worldliness. A secularity of character which makes Christianity and its principal doctrines distasteful or unintelligible. I. Taylor.

The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property.

To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk.

In a secular or worldly manner.