laical
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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
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 Thomasina Ross
Chaplaincies of this class are collative, thus being differentiated from those purely laical, in which the authority of the ordinary does not intervene.
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
Its Tawaf, generally called Tawaf al-Ziyarat, less commonly Tawaf al-Sadr or Tawaf al-Nuzul, is that performed immediately after throwing the stones and resuming the laical dress on the victim-day at Mount Muna.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton