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

The functionaries, laic and clerical, assented with much joy; and the Colonel required and received Wildrake's assistance in putting on his cloak and rapier, as if he had been the dependent whose part he acted.

From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Scott, Walter, Sir

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

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

It is needless to point out that in this series of oaths, these obligations imposed upon the knights, there is a moral development very superior to that of the laic society of the period.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 by Guizot, M. (François)