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

They were said to have their pantaloons, et cetera, all ready, to escape in a laic dress.

From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by Wylie, James Aitken

It is all interesting even to a non-artistic laic, for there is much "dry point" of general application in the Professor's lectures.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 20, 1892 by Various

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

The functionaries, laic and clerical, assented with much joy; and the Colonel required and received Wildrake's assistance in putting on his cloak and rapier, as if he had been the dependent whose part he acted.

From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Scott, Walter, Sir