What's the difference between cleric and layman?

Cleric


Definition:

  • (n.) A clerk, a clergyman.
  • (a.) Same as Clerical.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He helped her cope when her mother and then her father, who had been an Anglican cleric, died in quick succession in 1981.
  • (2) Turkish police have stormed the offices of an opposition media group days before the country’s pivotal election, in a crackdown on companies linked to a US-based cleric and critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan .
  • (3) "Everyone calls him the Socialist Worker Padre," one bland senior cleric told me with a sly and dismissive laugh.
  • (4) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
  • (5) Even the most popular Shia cleric, Sayyed Mohammed Fadlallah , a man who has deeply affected the thinking of key Hezbollah leaders and cadres since the party's inception, now says in no uncertain terms that Shias and the country as a whole want to see, and should see, a strong Lebanese army as the nation's sole protector; and that the perpetually unstable confessional system must be ended as soon as possible.
  • (6) Minutes after David Cameron joined the attack on Wednesday by claiming Khan was close to a south London cleric, Suliman Gani, who “supports IS [Islamic State]”, Team Zac circulated a dossier alleging Khan’s links with convicted terrorists, homophobes, antisemites and hate preachers.
  • (7) The main works in the mine were classified as mining, dressing of ores, refining, and clerical work.
  • (8) Computerization of the instrument resulted in a decrease in staff nurses' time spent rating patients, improved accuracy of ratings, ease of auditing, improved management reports, and a decrease in clerical time.
  • (9) Appeal court judges say they will deliver their ruling before Easter on the latest attempt by the home secretary, Theresa May , to lift the legal block on deporting the radical Islamist cleric, Abu Qatada, back to Jordan.
  • (10) He was a self-proclaimed cleric, though he had no formal qualifications or any evidence to support his claims.
  • (11) The surge in violence comes at a time of heightened political tension as the preparations of the coalition government to step down and fight elections have been threatened by a religious cleric who plans to bring a massive protest march to the capital on Monday.
  • (12) "We see these new laws being adopted," said Obolensky, "and then many clerical representatives and nationalists say that LGBT people are sick and need to be healed.
  • (13) On the face of it, Giles Fraser is an unlikely looking cleric.
  • (14) Symptomatology was more frequent in female detergent workers than among the clerical staff but no difference among men in different jobs was noted.
  • (15) The people of Iran, the region, Israel, America and the world deserve better than a deal that consolidates the grip on power of the violent revolutionary clerics who rule Tehran with an iron fist.” Here’s what members of the Bush team have said individually about the deal, since its announcement on Monday and in the weeks that led up to the announcement: Paul Wolfowitz , deputy secretary of defense under George W Bush, on Fox News : A bad deal is much worse than nothing.
  • (16) The work-load of house officers could be reduced considerably by providing additional clerical and administrative support and a more widespread adoption of an extended role for nurses.
  • (17) Reasons for missing appointments included the patient forgot or was confused (7 cases), weather (5), transportation difficulties (5), clerical error (3), and refusal of further chemotherapy (1).
  • (18) His interviews with al-Qaida, won partly because of a family link through marriage to a radical cleric, had angered the US, which had depicted him as a member of al-Qaida's media arm, not as an independent reporter.
  • (19) When Desai and her colleagues walked out, they were not members of a union, but they soon joined the Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff (Apex), which, along with the wider trade union movement, gave the Grunwick women considerable support during the strike, which lasted almost two years.
  • (20) Some of the women priests appeared to have sourced phone cases to match the colour of their clerical robes.

Layman


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do.
  • (n.) A lay figure. See under Lay, n. (above).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With the aid of 25 medical terms familiar to a layman, basic medical knowledge of the patient was tested.
  • (2) When he went on to begin a sentence with the words, "In my layman's understanding ... " Nel pounced and said: "You see, Mr Dixon, now you call yourself a layman."
  • (3) Quantum pioneer: Paul Dirac Moreover, there is a feeling, hard to convey to the layman but shared by many experienced theorists, that these ideas all hang together.
  • (4) An article written for the layman presents information on oral contraception, the IUD, the vaginal diaphragm, the condom, and foam.
  • (5) To some extent, a real effort must be made to educate the professional as well as the layman to face the diagnosis of cancer without evasion and go forward from there.
  • (6) Only in one-quarter was it very conspicuous even to the layman.
  • (7) If nothing else, this layman's take on society's ills reminds us that politics is not theirs – it's ours.
  • (8) The study of Lichtenstein, Slovic, Fischhoff, Layman, and Combs reports several types of errors in subjects' frequency judgments of lethal events.
  • (9) Being a layman, all I had to go by was the height – between four and a half and five feet tall.
  • (10) For the novice and layman such a question opens usually Pandora's box of reply.
  • (11) A knowledge of the layman's illness concepts is of value both for diagnosis and therapy in the practical application of the medical services.
  • (12) Even a layman can tell what made Albert Einstein famous as a scientist.
  • (13) To investigate the layman's knowledge, perception and attitudes regarding normal body temperature, fever, infections and the effect of penicillin on virus infections a representative sample of the Norwegian population (619 women and 592 men over the age of 15) was interviewed in 1988 as part of a monthly national opinion poll.
  • (14) A 31-year-old male has been "bulls-eyed" by a car and we're in the air ambulance, flying out from the Royal London hospital to a suburban street, where the man lies in a twisted, bloodied heap with his feet pointing in what even a layman would identify as the wrong direction.
  • (15) Photograph: Getty The layman's term for this sort of offer is: a joke.
  • (16) In addition, they were questioned about therapeutic wishes if primary resuscitation with ventilation and cardiac massage were administered by a layman.
  • (17) The surgeon uses elementary mathematics just as much as any other educated layman.
  • (18) The imminent availability of inexpensive ultrasonic scanners for the layman is a worrying prospect to which the medical profession should now try to develop a prudent response.
  • (19) In order for a patient to give an informed consent for a procedure, he or she needs to understand the risks, benefits and consequences of the procedure explained in layman's terms.
  • (20) He later added: "As a layman I would now say I think we have it" – meaning the Higgs.