laical

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The same day, in the Quartier des Ecoles, professors, doctors, lawyers, engineers, and students placarded a manifesto demanding a democratic and laical Republic, an autonomous Commune and the federation of the communes.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

Many pilgrims, especially the soldiers, were in laical costume.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Such work, though the ceremony of ordination may have been omitted, is rather clerical or professional than laical.

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

A few imperfect maps, and some scanty notices on the manners and customs of the Indians, are the whole amount of their laical labors.

From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina

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.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir