[ぞく(P);しょく(ok), zoku (P); shoku (ok)] (n) (1) layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk); laity; man of the world; the world; (2) local manners; modern customs; (adj-na, adj-no) (3) common; popular; (4) (ant #13,970[Add to Longdo]
[さいぶん;さいもん, saibun ; saimon] (n) address to the gods; type of song which spread from mountain hermits to the laity during the Kamakura era [Add to Longdo]
[ひらしんと;へいしんと, hirashinto ; heishinto] (n) layman; laity[Add to Longdo]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
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A rising up of the laity against the sacerdotal
caste. --Macaulay.
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2. The state of a layman. [Obs.] --Ayliffe.
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3. Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or
medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
laity
n 1: in Christianity, members of a religious community that do
not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy
[syn: {laity}, {temporalty}] [ant: {clergy}]
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