Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Worldly \World"ly\, adv.
   With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.

         Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise By simply
         meek.                                    --Milton.

Worldly \World"ly\, a. [AS. woroldlic.]
   1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims;
      worldly actions. ``I thus neglecting worldly ends.''
      --Shak.

            Many years it hath continued, standing by no other
            worldly mean but that one only hand which erected
            it.                                   --Hooker.

   2. Pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction
      from the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this
      life and its enjoyments; bent on gain; as, worldly
      pleasures, affections, honor, lusts, men.

            With his soul fled all my worldly solace. --Shak.

   3. Lay, as opposed to clerical. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Source : WordNet®

worldly
     adj 1: characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world; "worldly
            goods and advancement" [ant: {unworldly}]
     2: very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in
        the ways of the world; "the blase traveler refers to the
        ocean he has crossed as `the pond'"; "the benefits of his
        worldly wisdom" [syn: {blase}]
     3: concerned with secular rather than sacred matters; "lords
        temporal and spiritual" [syn: {temporal}]
     [also: {worldliest}, {worldlier}]