Characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy.
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Examples for "lay"
Examples for "lay"
1In fact, state and local governments continue to lay off large numbers.
2They form the largest lay majority of any Press Council in Europe.
3Some believe that helped lay the foundation for the recent financial crisis.
4If progress stalls, tax reform could lay dormant during 2018's election year.
5Under the deal, the government endorsed mass lay-offs in the civil service.
1For the secular constituency in Turkey has good reason to feel uneasy.
2By barring moderate opposition candidate Bobonazarova, secular authorities risk radicalising the opposition.
3By barring moderate opposition candidate Oynihol Bobonazarova, secular authorities risk radicalizing opposition.
4Public prayer has no place in the institutions of a secular state.
5The state ideology, Pancasila, enshrines religious diversity in an officially secular system.
1But I charge thee to beware of laic reason and human impulses.
2The two kings strained every nerve to form laic alliances.
3He will not dance to the pipe ecclesiastic, sound it who may-Churchman ,Dissenter ,priest ,orlaic.
4Why- Ispeak ,ofcourse, in the ignorance of a laic-but , Iask ,whynot fumigate him and cleanse him?
5I know that the popish impostor-priests go about saying that the Inquisition was never an ecclesiastical tribunal, but a laic.
6The great movement of thought of the thirteenth century is above all a religious movement, presenting a double character-itis popular and it is laic.
7Sir, they are laics; the laity could never incur the same responsibilities as the clergy.
8There monks and laics are collected in crowds.
9He was a faithful Laic and an Oblate, and when he finished his course was seventy years of age.
10Mind, I say, learned laics.
11He was a Laic and Donate, and his native place was Alsen, a town near Tyel in the parts of Geldria.
12We are only young once, and you laics must not be too severely impeccable, otherwise what would become of us granters of absolution.
13He was a devout man and very trusty; a Laic and Resignate that was born at Ralt, and he was nearly seventy-one years old.
14In the same year, on the day following the Feast of St. James the Apostle, died John Smyt, a Laic and servant of our House.
15(17) And under the new defensors, whether laic or clerical, the citizens conquered full self-jurisdiction and self-administration for their folkmotes.