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along till they both rest on like divisions on both legs; and 
the divisions will shew the degrees and parts corresponding 
to the given line. 
6. To find the length of a versed sine to a given number 
of degrees, and a given radius. Make the transverse dis¬ 
tance of 90 and 90 in the sines equal to the given radius; 
take the transverse distance of the sine complement of the 
given degrees; if the given degrees are less than 90, the dif¬ 
ference, but if greater, the sum of the sine complement and 
radius givesthe versed sine. 
7. To open the legs of the sector so that the corresponding 
double scales of lines, chords, sines, tangents, may make, 
each of them, a right angle. On the lines, make the lateral 
distance 10, a distance between 8 on one leg, and 6 on the 
other leg; on the sines, make the lateral distance 90 a trans¬ 
verse distance from 45 to 45, or from 40 to 50, or from 30 
to 60, or from the sine of any degrees to their complement; 
or, on the sines, make the lateral distance of 45 a transverse 
distance between 30 and 30. 
In Trigonometry, the Sector serves when the base and 
perpendicular of a right-angled triangle are given, to find 
the hyphothenuse, Suppose the base 40 miles, and the 
perpendicular 30; open the sector till the two scales of lines 
make a right angle; then, for the base, take, 40 parts on 
the scale of lines on one teg; and, for the perpendicular, 
take 30 on the same scale on the other leg; then the extent 
from 40 on the one to 30 on the other, taken in the com¬ 
passes, will be the length of the hypothenuse; which line, 
applied to the scale of lines, will be found 50 miles. So also 
by obvious means, the perpendicular and the angle being 
given, or the hypothenuse and base being given, find the per¬ 
pendicular, or the hypothenuse being given, and the angle, 
find the perpendicular; or with the base and perpendicular, 
find the angle; or in any right-lined triangle, .two sides 
being given, with the inclined angle, find the third 
side, &c. 
SE'CULAR, adj. [seculnre, old French; seculier, 
modern; secularis, Latin.] Not spiritual; relating to affairs 
of the present world; 
Then shall they seek t’ avail themselves of names. 
Places, and titles; and with these to join 
Secular pow’r, though feigning still to act 
By spiritual. Milton. 
[In the church of Rome.] Not bound by monastic rules. 
—Those northern nations easily embraced the religion of 
those they subdued, and by their devotion gave great 
authority and reverence, and thereby ease to the clergy, 
both secular and regular. Temple. — [Seculaire , French.] 
Happening or coming once in a sec/e or century.—The 
secular year was kept but once in a century. Addison. 
SE'CULAR, s. Not a spiritual person: a layman. The 
clergy thought that, if it pleased the seculars, it might be 
done. Hales. —An ecclesiastic, in the Romish church, not 
bound by monastic rules. 
SECULAR GAMES, Ludi S ecu lares, in Antiquity, were 
solemn games held among the Romans, once in an age; or, 
in a period deemed the extent of the longest life of man, 
called by the Greeks uiav, and by the Latins seculum. 
The secular games were also called Terentine games, ludi 
Terentini, either because Manlius Valerius Terentinus gave 
occasion to their institution; for having been warned in a 
dream, to dig in the ground in a place near the Campus 
Martius, called Terentum, he there found an altar inscribed 
to Dis, or Pluto and Proserpine. 
The secular games lasted three days, and as many nights; 
during which time sacrifices were performed, theatrical shows 
exhibited, with combats, sports, &c. in the Circus. 
Authors are not agreed as to the number of years in 
which these games returned; partly because the quality of 
an age or seculum, among the ancients, is not known ; and 
partly on other accounts; some will have it that they were 
held once every hundred years; and that the seculum, or age, 
was our century. This Varro and Livy seem to express in 
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very plain terms; yet others will have it, that seculum com¬ 
prehended a hundred and ten years ; and that the secular 
games only returned in that period, that is, at the beginning 
of every 111th year; which opinion is countenanced by 
Horace, in his Secular Poem, ver. 21. 
Be this as it will, it is certain they sometimes did not stay 
for the 111th, nor even for the 100th year, for the cele¬ 
bration of these games. The first were held A. U. C. 245, 
or298; the second, A. 305, or 408; the third, A. 518; 
the fourth, either A. 605, or 608, or 628. Augustus held 
them in the year of Rome 736, and Claudius again in the 
year of Rome 800, and of Christ 38, viz., sixty-four years 
after the former; and Domitian, again, in still less time; 
viz., in tire year of Rome 841, or of Christ 79, at which 
Tacitus assisted in quality of quindecimvir, as he himself tells 
us, Annal. lib. xi. cap. 11. and this was the seventh time 
that Rome had seen them from their first institution. The 
emperor Severus exhibited them the eighth time, that is, a 
hundred and ten years after those of Domitian. Zosimus 
says, these were the last; but he is mistaken, for in the 
year of Rome 1000, that is, fifty years after those of Se¬ 
verus, the emperor Philip had them celebrated with greater 
magnificence than had ever been known. Those that were 
celebrated by permission of the emperor Honorius, after 
having received the news of the victory of Stilicho over 
Alaric, were the last recorded in history. Zosimus ascribes 
the decline of the empire to the neglect of these games 
among the Romans. We find them represented on many 
medals. 
SECULARE CARMEN, or Secular Poem, a poem, 
sung or rehearsed, at the secular games. 
SECULA'RITY, s. [ secularite, Fr. Cotgrave.] World¬ 
liness; attention to the things of the present life. Unused. 
—Littleness and secularity of spirit is the greatest enemy 
to contemplation. Burnet. 
SECULARIZATION, s. Act of secularizing.—Re¬ 
ligious, that want to be released of their vows, obtain briefs 
of secularization from the pope. Chambers. 
To SE'CULARIZE, v. a. [seculariser, Fr.] To convert 
from spiritual appropriations to common use. To make 
worldly. Unused. 
SE'CULARLY, adv. In a worldly manner. Unused.' 
SE'CULARNESS, s. Worldliness. Unused. 
SECUNDANS, in Mathematics, an infinite series of 
numbers, beginning from nothing, and proceeding as the 
squares of numbers in arithmetical progression. 
SECUNDIANS, a sect of Valentinians in the second 
century, whose chief, Secundus, one of the principal followers 
of Valentine, maintained the doctrine of two eternal 
principles, viz., light and darkness, from whence arose the 
good and the evil that are observable in the universe. 
SE'CUNDINE, s. [secondines, Fr.] The membrane in 
which the embryo is wrapped; the after-birth.—The casting 
of the skin is by the ancients compared to the breaking of the 
secundine, or cawl, but not rightly ; for the secundine, is 
but a general cover, not shaped according to the parts, but 
the skin is. Bacon. 
Future ages lie 
Wrapp’d in their sacred secundine asleep. Crawley. 
SECUNDREPORE.—There are two towns of this name 
in Hindostan, one in the province of Ajmeer, district of 
Jyepore; the other in the province of Allahabad, district of 
Gazypoor, but neither of consequence. 
SECUNDUS (Johannes), is the literary name of John 
Everard, a celebrated Latin poet, the son of Nicholas 
Everard, an eminent jurist, and president of the council of 
Mecklin under Charles V. He was born at the Hague in 
1511, and at an early age studied the law at Bourges. He, 
however, shewed a decided attachment to polite literature in 
preference to jurisprudence, and contracted intimacies with 
some of the most distinguished Latin poets of his time. He 
travelled into Italy and Spain, and was made secretary to 
cardinal Tavera, archbishop of Toledo. He followed 
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