laic
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of laic
1555–65; < Late Latin lāicus < Greek lāikós of the people, equivalent to lā ( ós ) people + -ikos -ic
Example Sentences
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It's about what philosophical measures have to be taken to impose a powerful laic republic, unifying all.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2015
It is all interesting even to a non-artistic laic, for there is much "dry point" of general application in the Professor's lectures.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 20, 1892 by Various
I see! you can be none other than Wolfframb of Eschinbach, the most unfledged, ignorant laic of those who style themselves masters of the singer's craft up on the Wartburg.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
So, also, must the laic who binds himself to observe eight of the whole ten Precepts for specified periods; during these periods he must be celibate.
From The Buddhist Catechism by Henry Steel Olcott
Touching my peers, it is but necessary to say, that Mistress Martha Trapbois will none of them, whether clerical or laic.
From The Fortunes of Nigel by Sir Walter Scott
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