Such examinations have both sacred and secular purposes.
These were used as reliquaries, but some were originally made for secular purposes.
He also tried to restore the value of tithes and prevent the misappropriation of churchyards for secular purposes.
Moreover, the monitoring necessary to ensure that these funds are used for secular purposes could alter the character of the churches themselves.
Although the program was enacted for ostensibly secular purposes,, we found that its "function" was "unmistakably to provide desired financial support for nonpublic, sectarian institutions".
But the policy itself has plausible secular purposes: "To solemnize the event, to promote good sportsmanship and student safety, and to establish the appropriate environment for the competition".
In an amphictyony of 12 tribes, each tribe could render federal service for religious and secular purposes, one month each year.
Panel paintings, by strict definition, are small pictures designed for specific sacred or secular purposes or as part of a functional object.
Sister Mary Boys, a nun and a professor of practical theology at Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan, has been using a palmtop for more than a year, but only for secular purposes like keeping track of appointments and phone numbers.
Originally purely religious in connotation, bronze vessels were given as gifts of emperors to their favoured subjects by the Zhou dynasty (1111 255 bce) and from that time on were commonly employed for secular purposes.
Adorned with jewelry, flowers, high heels and dresses that made much of their generous embonpoint, they and their smartly attired men were here for secular purposes: to have a good time, with danzon, cumbia and, most infectious of all, mambo, forms that developed elsewhere but quickly caught on in Mexico.
