laic

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

The laic has also five lesser vows: not to kill, not to lie, not to steal, not to commit adultery or fornication, to be content with little.

From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

This monarch, father of Philippe-Auguste, fixed the number of peers of France, the great seigneurs who held directly from the crown, at twelve,—six laic and six ecclesiastical.

From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton

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 Henry Steel Olcott

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 Edmund Burke