Definition of "secundum" [secundum]

• A Latin preposition, meaning ‘according to,’ ‘by rule or practice of’: used in some phrases which occur in English books.
• Artificially; not naturally.
• Artistically; skilfully; scientifically; professionally: used especially as a direction to an apothecary for compounding a prescription.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Second, that which the praetor promises to all duly instituted heirs, and which is for that reason called secundum tabulas."
• "May I take this opportunity to wish all NLM readers a very happy and blessed Easter, in the words of the EF Martyrology: Hac die, quam fecit Dominus, Solemnitas solemnitatum, et Pascha nostrum: Resurrectio Salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi secundum carnem."
• "In this liturgical Latin the requirements demanded by Hilary for the style of the Christian exegete are realized to the full: Non enim secundum sermonis nostri usum promiscuam in his oportet esse facilitatem: "There is no place here for the loose facility of the colloquial language" (In Ps. 13.1)."