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laical, a.|ˈleɪɪkəl|
Also 6 lai-, laycall.
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
= prec. Also occas., non-professional.
[1290Rolls of Parlt. I. 60/2 Exactionibus..per quas plus extorquent de populo quam omnes Cur' laycales.] 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 1050/1 The distinction used to be made betweene the priestes communion and the laicall communion. 1596Bell Surv. Popery iii. x. 408 The faithful laycall people. 1656in Blount Glossogr. 1704Nelson Fest. & Fasts x. (1739) 603 The Canon Law..declares that every Laical Person who..shall take a Bribe for a Presentation..shall be excommunicated. 1818Lady Morgan Autobiog. (1859) 106 This religious house..is almost laical. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 557 No complaint is so common as fever; none in which mankind, whether professional or laical, are so little likely to be mistaken. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 175 A phrase commonly indicated in laical literature by the same sign which serves for Doctorate in Divinity. 1886Athenæum 17 July 79/2 The special circumstances of Dulwich make its headmastership one more laical..than that of other leading schools.
absol.1605Camden Rem., Wise Sp. 180 In all ages the Clericall will flatter, as well [as] the Laicall.
Hence laiˈcality, the state or condition of a layman; ˈlaically adv., in a laical manner; after the manner of a layman.
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