laic

Example Sentences

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It's about what philosophical measures have to be taken to impose a powerful laic republic, unifying all.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2015

I have some knowledge of this because Signor Senator Marzi-Medici, who presides over the laic government of this town for our Most Serene Grand Duke, has told me all.

From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous

This monarch, father of Philippe-Auguste, fixed the number of peers of France, the great seigneurs who held directly from the crown, at twelve,—six laic and six ecclesiastical.

From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by Walton, William

It suppresses "all secular congregations of men and women ecclesiastic or laic, even those wholly devoted to hospital service will take away from 600,000 children the means of learning to read and write."

From The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Durand, John

There is no distinction between laic and cleric in Islam.

From The Moors in Spain by Lane-Poole, Stanley