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
This meant little in the Middle Ages, when all intellectual callings were clerical, when at Oxford gownsman and clerk, townsman and laic, were convertible terms.
From Oxford and Her Colleges by Smith, Goldwin
Far from acting with disregard to human life, the barbarians, moreover, knew nothing of the horrid punishments introduced at a later epoch by the laic and canonic laws under Roman and Byzantine influence.
From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz
The laic judges, Raoul Bouteillier, baillie of Rouen, and his lieutenant, Peter Daron, were alone qualified to pronounce sentence of death; but no time was given them.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Black, Robert
