laical
Example Sentences
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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
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 Leonard Woolsey Bacon
In the first place, the rise of the laical spirit was to be observed, especially after the establishment of local self-government in the free cities.
From History of Human Society by Frank W. (Frank Wilson) Blackmar
It is to be noted, however, that they are in some sort evidence of the connection that once existed between the Church and the Theatre; the ecclesiastical and the laical drama.
From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook
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
