laic
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
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
But I charge thee to beware of laic reason and human impulses.
From The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance by Adams, John Turvill
It is all interesting even to a non-artistic laic, for there is much "dry point" of general application in the Professor's lectures.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 20, 1892 by Various
