单词 | laic |
释义 | laicadj.n. A. adj. Of or pertaining to a layman or the laity; non-clerical, secular, temporal; = lay adj. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > [adjective] lewdc890 worldlyOE of the world?c1225 secularc1290 layc1330 temporalc1340 borel1377 common?c1400 profane1474 laic1562 layit1563 laical1570 non-ecclesiastical1630 mundane1848 1562 Winȝet (title) The last Blast of the Trompet of Godis worde..Put furth..At the desyre of ye inferiour ordoure of Clergie, and laic men. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 105 (margin) Thrie ordouris of the Realme, Ecclesiastik, Nobilitie, and the laik sorte. 1626 J. Mede Let. 11 Feb. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 220 It understands the King not to be merely laic, but a mixed person. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 86 A well voiced boy from the..top of their Churches sings Eulogies to Mahomet..and then each Laycke Pagan fals to deuotion. a1680 J. Bargrave Pope Alexander VII (1867) i. xvi. 38 To avoid the appearance at a laic king's court. 1736 S. Chandler Hist. Persecution 10 The prosecution [of Socrates] was truly laick. 1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Aug. 155/2 A kind of secondary or laic-truth is tolerated, where clergy-truth—oath-truth, by the nature of the circumstances, is not required. 1861 J. Tulloch Eng. Puritanism ii. 291 The common life, clerical and laic, is of a very coarse kind. B. n. One of the laity; a layman or lay person; one who is not an ecclesiastic. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > [noun] > member of worldhoodeOE man of the worlda1225 secularc1425 idiot?c1430 layman?a1475 lay?1533 beardling1568 laic1596 terrestrial1602 layperson1972 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 297 He sendis messingeris..with the fyre crose in thair handes, sulde shaw it out to al man baith laikis and kirkmen. 1615 Bp. J. Hall Recoll. Treat. 825 How wretchedly & fearefully must their poor Laicks needs die. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 167 in Justice Vindicated If he be a Laick, he shall be excommunicated from every Christian thing. 1739 J. Trapp Righteous Over-much 10 For unletter'd Laics to take upon them to expound or interpret the Scriptures. 1787 J. Hawkins Life Johnson 261 The clergyman was now become an amphibious being, that is to say, both an ecclesiastic and a laic. 1823 J. Lingard Hist. Eng. VI. 245 A committee of thirty-two members, half laics and half clergymen. 1847 H. Bushnell Views Christian Nurture 202 No person, whether laic or priest. 1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket i. i. 29 Laics and barons, thro' The random gifts of careless kings, have graspt Her livings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1562 |
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