Definition of Laty
La"i*ty (lā"&ibreve;*t&ybreve;),
n. [See Lay, a.]
1. The people, as distinguished from the clergy;
the body of the people not in orders.
A rising up of the laity against the sacerdotal
caste. Macaulay.
2. The state of a layman. [Obs.]
Ayliffe.
3. Those who are not of a certain profession,
as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to
it.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- people, people of a church who are not ordained clergy or clerics.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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