Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
laic .
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- adjective archaic Of or pertaining to a
layman orlaity .
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Examples
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The idea of laical public education is reinforced to strengthen The Republic, such as it was done in the first third of the XX century.
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After resuming our laical toilette, and dressing gaily for the great festival, we mounted our asses about the cool of the afternoon, and, returning to Muna, we found the tent full of visitors.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Many pilgrims, especially the soldiers, were in laical costume.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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When a man appears as a Fakir or Darwaysh, he casts off, in process of regeneration, together with other worldly sloughs, his laical name for some brilliant coat of nomenclature rich in religious promise.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Others again devote themselves to laical pursuits, degenerate into Wakils (lawyers), or seek their fortunes as Katibs — public or private accountants.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Ludovico di Varthema — the vir Deo carus, be it remarked, of the learned and laical Julius Caesar Scaliger:
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Its Tawaf, generally called Tawaf al-Ziyarat, less commonly Tawaf al-Sadr or Tawaf al-Nuzul, is that performed immediately after throwing the stones and resuming the laical dress on the victim-day at Mount Muna.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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At first sight the choice appears not difficult to make, for although so laical and original a work had proved to be popular, yet such popularity was hardly of a nature to appeal to so devout a Christian as one who had already attained episcopal rank.
The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan
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Her philosophy was purely laical; thought was unrestrained by any sacred tradition; it even pretended to pass judgment upon these traditions and condemned or approved of them.
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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There being "other excesses" for which, it appears, there is no statute remedy, the magistrates commit a piece of pious injustice, and lump sundry laical sins into the one crime against the Church.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841 Various
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