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 are very easily alienated from all the higher orders of their subjects, whether civil or military, laic or ecclesiastical.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

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 Black, Robert

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

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