laic
Americanadjective
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Origin of laic
1555–65; < Late Latin lāicus < Greek lāikós of the people, equivalent to lā ( ós ) people + -ikos -ic
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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
Besides, the States of 1576 saw how the clergy readopted to their profit, against the two laic orders, the proposition voted in 1355.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by Black, Robert
Ferdinand's Campaigns henceforth, which turn all on the defence of Hanover, are highly recommended to professional readers; but to the laic sort do not prove interesting in proportion to the trouble.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Carlyle, Thomas
They are very easily alienated from all the higher orders of their subjects, whether civil or military, laic or ecclesiastical.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
Luther himself, at the same time that he reserved to the new German church a certain measure of spontaneity and liberty, had placed it under the protection and preponderance of laic sovereigns.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by Black, Robert
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