† layitadj.
Scottish. Obsolete.
Lay.
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lewdc890
worldlyOE
of the world?c1225
secularc1290
layc1330
temporalc1340
borel1377
common?c1400
profane1474
laic1562
layit1563
laical1570
non-ecclesiastical1630
mundane1848
1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 47 The Catholiks of the inferiour ordour of clergie and layt men.
1621 Gude & Godlie Ball. (S.T.S.) App. i. 231 The layit ȝe will not teiche.
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adj.1563- to hold a finger against a person
- to hold a finger against a thing
- to hold a finger in the wind
- to hold a finger to
- to hold a finger to a person
- to hold a finger to a thing
- to hold a finger to the wind
- to hold a good wind
- to hold a organization in contempt of court
- to hold a person at stave's end
- to hold a person at the long saw
- to hold a person company
- to hold a person in contempt
- to hold a person in contempt of court
- to hold a person in etc reverence
- to hold a person in fable
- to hold a person in great reverence
- to hold a person in hand
- to hold a person in reverence
- to hold a person in the palm of one's hand
- to hold a person responsible
- to hold a person scoreless
- to hold a person tack
- to hold a person tack to tack
- to hold a person upon the inturn