(a.) The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.
(a.) The state of a layman.
(a.) Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Polling shows that a great majority of the Anglican laity are in favour of Lord Falconer's assisted dying bill, and even some of the bishops I have spoken to here, although they are bitter about what they feel is the unfairness of the argument, are resigned to losing in the long term.
(2) The details also gave succour to critics who say the house of laity has become profoundly unrepresentative.
(3) Philip Giddings, the conservative evangelical who chairs the house of laity, said he was satisfied the new, simplified legislation would be tolerable for his side.
(4) Although female bishops were approved by the majority of dioceses, bishops and clergy, they were rejected by the laity on Tuesday when put to a vote in the synod, the church's governing body.
(5) The problems of the laity and clergy are intertwined, and in the developed world their symptom is obvious: there are not enough of either, and both are ageing rapidly and sustained only by immigration from the south.
(6) In November 2012, both the houses of bishops and of clergy voted for the legislation, but it was rejected by only a few votes in the House of Laity.
(7) The letter read: "We are puzzled, dismayed and very disappointed that for the third time running we have been assigned a bishop of Whitby who does not accept the ordination of women priests … We are aware that some parishes, some clergy, and some of the laity in the Whitby bishopric do not accept the validity of women priests but, as in the rest of the country, a substantial majority of us do.
(8) But there are not enough clergy or laity to serve them, and especially too few Spanish speakers, obliging parishes to try to fill the gap by importing priests from South and Central America.
(9) But it is another example of the way in which the views of a retired bishop with no official position can resonate when they chime with the experience of the ordinary laity.
(10) His teachers in medicine included Corvisart, Bayle, Broussais, and Magendie; he qualified in 1816 with an MD thesis: "On the danger of reading medical text books by the laity"!
(11) The legislation had needed a two-thirds majority in each of the three houses of the General Synod to pass, but, despite comfortably managing that in both the houses of bishops and clergy, it was dealt a fatal blow in the laity, where lay members voted 132 votes in favour and 74 against.
(12) As well as calling on the church to show "real repentance for the lack of welcome and acceptance extended to homosexual people in the past", the report also urges it to think about whether it is reasonable to allow lay people to be in sexually active same-sex relationships while requiring celibacy from its clergy and bishops, saying: "In the facilitated discussions it will be important to reflect on the extent to which the laity and the clergy should continue to observe such different disciplines."
(13) Most dentists are heartily sick of the George Bernard Shaw quotation 'The professions are a conspiracy against the laity.'
(14) The legislation, which needed a two-thirds majority in each of the synod's three houses, was passed comfortably in the house of bishops and clergy but scuppered in the laity by just six votes.
(15) We go back to religion, and she says she was surprised when the laity voted against allowing women bishops last year.
(16) It's bad enough for academics, it's worse for the laity.
(17) Bishop of Grantham first C of E bishop to declare he is in gay relationship Read more In effect, there is one standard for the laity – which is to conform to the liberal norms of society – and a double standard for the clergy who are supposed to be celibate, even when they live with same sex partners, if not heterosexually married.
(18) Nato remains undefeated on the battlefield, but Laity wanted to make clear that the “narrative landscape” represented a new and unfamiliar battleground – one in which Nato no longer appeared to hold a clear advantage.
(19) The laity has been the decisive party in the struggle over female bishops, on both sides.
(20) His position on female bishops has prompted one member of the house of laity, Canon Stephen Barney, to propose a motion of no confidence, which will be debated at an extraordinary meeting on 18 January.
Laymen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Layman
Example Sentences:
(1) Using the example of the stress concept, it is suggested that it is a 'key word' with denotative and connotative meanings accessible to professional and laymen, contributing to explore the 'gray zone' between 'health' and 'disease' by linking psychological, social and biological determinants of 'well-being' and 'discomfort'.
(2) We found that the most probable source of infection was the treatment by the natural healer and therefore wish to warn against invasive treatment of such high-risk patients by laymen.
(3) Laymen should not have to seek out specialists to give them examinations for each system of the body.
(4) Wise physicians and perceptive laymen have recognized the validity of an holosomatic approach for over 4000 years.
(5) This study has shown that surgery for hypertelorism or vertical orbital dystopia gives very satisfying results overall to the patients and their families and leads to a modest but highly significant objective improvement in appearance after surgery, as perceived by panels of laymen or hospital staff not known to the patients.
(6) Many of his lectures and publications were addressed to the educated laymen.
(7) The insurance companies' data on blood-pressure and longevity have certainly contributed to the trend among both laymen and doctors to take hypertension more seriously.
(8) Furthermore, etiological theories entertained by royal officials and laymen relied on physiological and psychological notions of psychiatric illness.
(9) It is argued that 'informed' consent is obtainable only from medically trained people, and that lip service to this concept in laymen should cease.
(10) Addiction is both a more complex-and a more common-phenomenon than either medical personnel or laymen have realized.
(11) Categorization of aphasia is reviewed, emphasizing that a fluent language disorder can be elusive to laymen and non-neurologically oriented physicians.
(12) Credibility as referral source is ranked as follows: psychiatry, psychology, social work, counselors (both pastoral and marriage, family and child), with laymen ranking lowest.
(13) In view of the above situation it is, therefore, urged that first-aid training of laymen be organized on a broad scale and that all possibilities of providing instruction be exploited.
(14) The medical conquest of Sonora was accomplished by laymen, explorers and missionaries who carried the theory of healing resulting from these syncretic processes into the northern lands, adding new materials that they learned from indigenous peoples there.
(15) In an apparent quotation from the report, La Repubblica said some Vatican officials had been subject to "external influence" from laymen with whom they had links of a "worldly nature".
(16) Nowadays, laymen and scientists are becoming more concerned with the ways in which animals are maintained in captivity.
(17) The disposable unit-dose BCG vaccine for multipuncture has some advantages in that the vaccination can be performed immediately without arrangements even by laymen, anytime, anywhere when needed, with no chance of contamination as hepatitis infection.
(18) For non-legal laymen, having possession of the other side's legal work is considered exceptionally bad form, akin to a doctor groping a patient.
(19) co-ordination of laymen, specialists, officials and others Evaluation Follow through.
(20) Both methods were tested with a group of laymen and paramedical personnel at the Recording Resusci-Anne manequin.