Synonyms for laic
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : ley-ik |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈleɪ ɪk |
Définition of laic
Origin :- 1560s, from French laïque (16c.), from Late Latin laicus, from Greek laikos "of or belonging to the people," from laos "people" (see lay (adj.)).
- adj amateur
- Its laic element was strong and was emphasised from the beginning.
- Extract from : « Hugh Miller » by William Keith Leask
- About gardening he understood as little as a laic about the secrets of the Church.
- Extract from : « Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) » by Thomas Carlyle
- But I charge thee to beware of laic reason and human impulses.
- Extract from : « The Knight of the Golden Melice » by John Turvill Adams
- They are very easily alienated from all the higher orders of their subjects, whether civil or military, laic or ecclesiastical.
- Extract from : « The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IV. (of 12) » by Edmund Burke
- M. Delahaye continued: It is well to notice that laic has two meanings.
- Extract from : « The Religious Persecution in France 1900-1906 » by Jane Milliken Napier Brodhead
- To offset such irrefutable evidence there is not one contemporary reference to a laic, or communal purpose.
- Extract from : « How France Built Her Cathedrals » by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
- Viollet-le-Duc called Laon the laic cathedral par excellence.
- Extract from : « How France Built Her Cathedrals » by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
- They were said to have their pantaloons, et cetera, all ready, to escape in a laic dress.
- Extract from : « Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber » by James Aitken Wylie
- He was a devout man and very trusty; a Laic and Resignate that was born at Ralt, and he was nearly seventy-one years old.
- Extract from : « The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes » by Thomas a Kempis
- Touching my peers, it is but necessary to say, that Mistress Martha Trapbois will none of them, whether clerical or laic.
- Extract from : « The Fortunes of Nigel » by Sir Walter Scott
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