Word Meanings - LAIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A layman. Bp. Morton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LAIC)

• Secular
• Worldly
• profane
• civil
• unmonastic
• temporal
• laic

Related words: (words related to LAIC)

• WORLDLY
  1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining
• TEMPORALNESS
  Worldliness. Cotgrave.
• WORLDLY-MINDED
  Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
• TEMPORALTY
  1. The laity; secular people. Abp. Abbot. 2. A secular possession; a temporality.
• SECULARIZATION
  The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property.
• CIVILIZED
  Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated. Sale of conscience and duty in open market is not reconcilable with the present state of civilized society. J. Quincy.
• CIVILIZE
  1. To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine. Yet blest that fate which did his arms dispose Her land to civilize, as to subdue. Dryden 2. To admit as suitable to a civilized state.
• SECULAR
  Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest. He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and greater regard for morals, both in the religious
• SECULARIZE
  1. To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. 2. To convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property. At the Reformation the abbey was secularized. W. Coxe. 3. To
• CIVIL
  1. Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state. 2. Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community. England was very
• CIVILITY
  1. The state of society in which the relations and duties of a citizen are recognized and obeyed; a state of civilization. Monarchies have risen from barbarrism to civility, and fallen again to ruin. Sir J. Davies. The gradual depature
• TEMPORALITY
  1. The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity. 2. The laity; temporality. Sir T. More. 3. That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic proceeding from
• CIVILIST
  A civilian. Warbur
• WORLDLYWISE; WORLDLY-WISE
  Wise in regard to things of this world. Bunyan.
• PROFANER
  One who treats sacred things with irreverence, or defiles what is holy; one who uses profane language. Hooker.
• SECULARITY
  Supreme attention to the things of the present life; worldliness. A secularity of character which makes Christianity and its principal doctrines distasteful or unintelligible. I. Taylor.
• PROFANE
  temple, i. e., without the temple, unholy; pro before + fanum temple. 1. Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as,
• CIVILIZABLE
  Capable of being civilized.
• SECULARISM
  1. The state or quality of being secular; a secular spirit; secularity. 2. The tenets or principles of the secularists.
• CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
  The substitution of business principles and methods for political methods in the conduct of the civil service. esp. the merit system instead of the spoils system in making appointments to office.
• INCIVIL
  Uncivil; rude. Shak.
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
• UNSECULARIZE
  To cause to become not secular; to detach from secular things; to alienate from the world.
• DECIVILIZE
  To reduce from civilization to a savage state. Blackwood's Mag.
• UNCIVILTY
  In an uncivil manner.
• UNCIVILITY
  Incivility.
• INCIVILITY
  1. The quality or state of being uncivil; want of courtesy; rudeness of manner; impoliteness. Shak. Tillotson. 2. Any act of rudeness or ill breeding. Uncomely jests, loud talking and jeering, which, in civil account, are called indecencies and
• INCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; want of civilization; barbarism.
• SUPRATEMPORAL
  Situated above the temporal bone or temporal fossa. -- n.