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Webster 1913 Edition
Laity
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 1828 Edition
Laity
LA'ITY
,Noun.
1.
The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.2.
The state of a layman, or of not being in orders. [Not used.]