laic
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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 Robert Black
The laic judges, Raoul Bouteillier, baillie of Rouen, and his lieutenant, Peter Daron, were alone qualified to pronounce sentence of death; but no time was given them.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black
Catholicism has adapted itself in practice to laic legislation and to the exigencies of modern life.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon
Thus, at the end of the thirteenth century, there were found face to face two systems, one laic and the other ecclesiastical, of absolute power.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by Robert Black
