Noun:

திருச்சபை சமய குரு அல்லாதவர்,

layman's Usage Examples:

Writers, savants, poets, artists, noble and plebeian, layman and cleric, without any previous concert, or obvious connexion, were working towards that ideal of political liberty which was to unite all the Magyars.

The administrative subdivisions of the Lhasa country, of which there are fifty-four, are called jong, or " prefecture," each of which is under the rule of two jong-pon, the one a lama, the other a layman.

The modern term, IVF (in vitro fertilization), has replaced the colloquial "test tube baby" in both scientific and layman vocabularies.

St Louis, the true type of the religious crusader, once said that a layman ought only to argue with a blasphemer against Christian law by running his sword into the bowels of the blasphemer as far as it would go: 1 Frederick II.

858), and upon refusing to resign his office was illegally deposed, while Photius, although a layman, received all the necessary sacerdotal orders within six days, and was installed as patriarch in his place.

The general rule was said to be that all lands within a parish are subject to tithes, and a layman was not allowed to prescribe generally that his lands were exempt; but he had to show a special exemption, and no length of possession was regarded in law in view of the maxim nullum tempos occurrit ecclesiae, although equity did take account of it.

Lawyers always underestimate the legal knowledge of an intelligent layman.

The sixth decree of the Lateran synod of 10J9 forbade any cleric to accept Church office from a layman.

No heathen may tread the outer court, no layman the inner court, while the holiest of all may not be trodden even by the priest Ezekiel but only by the angel who accompanies him.

It is to be noticed that the clergy were never admitted to this public discipline; but a cleric might be deposed and then admitted as a layman.

Synonyms:

secular, common person, layperson, common man, commoner, lay reader, temporalty, laity,

Antonyms:

naive, heavenly, sacred, clergyman, clergy,