laical
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Know then, O King, that all men's works tend either to religious or to laical life, for none attaineth to religion save through this world, because it is the best road to futurity.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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.
From The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Franz Cumont
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.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841 by Various
He appointed one of his brothers, the Duke of Bedford, to be regent in his absence, and the peers, ecclesiastical and laical, applauded his design, promising him their sincere co-operation.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black
The Misericordia takes care of the financial affairs of twenty-nine collative and of ten laical chaplaincies; and, in the royal college of San Joseph, of two fellowships.