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

So, also, must the laic who binds himself to observe eight of the whole ten Precepts for specified periods; during these periods he must be celibate.

From The Buddhist Catechism by Olcott, Henry Steel

I have some knowledge of this because Signor Senator Marzi-Medici, who presides over the laic government of this town for our Most Serene Grand Duke, has told me all.

From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous

I see! you can be none other than Wolfframb of Eschinbach, the most unfledged, ignorant laic of those who style themselves masters of the singer's craft up on the Wartburg.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm

He will not dance to the pipe ecclesiastic, sound it who may—Churchman, Dissenter, priest, or laic.

From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard