Synonyms:
layman, layperson, secular
Meaning: someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
Usage examples
The Second Person of the secular Trinity.
Irishmen were equally active in spreading secular knowledge.
They were simply let alone, to teach their own secular learning just as they pleased.
And yet this secular fluctuation of the constellation figures is not without keen interest for the meditative observer.
Secular and religious education had effaced the throat-grappling instinct, or else firm finance held in check the passions.
If we first had performed God's command and order in the spiritual and secular estate we would find time enough to reform food, clothing, tonsures, and surplices.
The secular priests, finding themselves thus reduced to a grievous servitude, instilled into the people those discontents which they had long harbored in their own bosoms.
Among these students the most distinguished was St. Dunstan, who, according to all his biographers, received his education, both Scriptural and secular, from Irish masters there.
Whole crowds of ardent and learned Irishmen travelled on the Continent in the sixth, seventh, and succeeding centuries, spreading Christianity and secular knowledge everywhere among the people.
John Wickliffe, a secular priest, educated at Oxford, began in the latter end of Edward III. to spread the doctrine of reformation by his discourses, sermons, and writings; and he made many disciples among men of all ranks and stations.