layman

Some of the stalls probably, usually but a few, may have been occupied by laymen even so early as the thirteenth century.

A band of devout republican laymen, with candles and red crosses, brought up the rear.

In vain did all his advisers, Scots and English, clerics and laymen, assure him that negotiation on these terms was hopeless.

In 1414 a mixed tribunal of ecclesiastics and laymen was established to search out heretics and punish them.