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laity 音标拼音: [l'eəti] n. 俗人,外行 俗人,外行 laity n 1: in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy [synonym: {laity}, {temporalty}] [ant: {clergy}] Laity \La"i*ty\ (l[=a]"[i^]*t[y^]), n. [See {Lay}, a.] 1. The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders. [1913 Webster] A rising up of the laity against the sacerdotal caste. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 2. The state of a layman. [Obs.] --Ayliffe. [1913 Webster] 3. Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it. [1913 Webster] LAITY. Those persons who do not make a part of the clergy. In the United States the division of the people into clergy and laity is not authorized by law, but is, merely conventional.
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