Definitions for laic

laic la·ic

Spelling: [ley-ik]
IPA: /ˈleɪ ɪk/

Laic is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in laic (acil).

Definitions for laic

noun

  1. one of the laity.

adjective

  1. Also, laical. lay; secular.

Origin of laic

1555-65; Late Latin lāicus Greek lāikós of the people, equivalent to lā(ós) people + -ikos -ic

Examples for laic

About gardening he understood as little as a laic about the secrets of the Church.

M. Delahaye continued: It is well to notice that laic has two meanings.

Touching my peers, it is but necessary to say, that Mistress Martha Trapbois will none of them, whether clerical or laic.

They are very easily alienated from all the higher orders of their subjects, whether civil or military, laic or ecclesiastical.

They were said to have their pantaloons, et cetera, all ready, to escape in a laic dress.

Its laic element was strong and was emphasised from the beginning.

Viollet-le-Duc called Laon the laic cathedral par excellence.

He was a devout man and very trusty; a laic and Resignate that was born at Ralt, and he was nearly seventy-one years old.

To offset such irrefutable evidence there is not one contemporary reference to a laic, or communal purpose.

But I charge thee to beware of laic reason and human impulses.

Word Value for laic
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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