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laic

[ley-ik] / ˈleɪ ɪk /
ADJECTIVE
amateur
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So grateful was the Government that the Laic Law was thereafter suspended, and an attempt by Edouard Herriot to revive it failed in 1924.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the same year, on the last day of August, and within the Octave of the Feast of St. Augustine, before Matins, died the humble and devout Laic, John Bobert, being forty years old. 

From The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes by Arthur, J. P.

He was a devout man and very trusty; a Laic and Resignate that was born at Ralt, and he was nearly seventy-one years old. 

From The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes by Arthur, J. P.

In the same month, on the day following the Feast of Alexius the Confessor, Dirk Struve, a Laic and Fellow Commoner, died after Compline, having received the Holy Rite of Extreme Unction. 

From The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes by Arthur, J. P.

He was a Laic and Donate, and his native place was Alsen, a town near Tyel in the parts of Geldria. 

From The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes by Arthur, J. P.




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