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

Luther himself, at the same time that he reserved to the new German church a certain measure of spontaneity and liberty, had placed it under the protection and preponderance of laic sovereigns.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by Black, Robert

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

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

Ferdinand's Campaigns henceforth, which turn all on the defence of Hanover, are highly recommended to professional readers; but to the laic sort do not prove interesting in proportion to the trouble.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Carlyle, Thomas