laicus

A common word for warrior, or hero, laich, now laoch, is simply from laicus, a layman.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

However, the whole range of education lay so exclusively in the hands of the priesthood during the Middle Ages, that the ecclesiastical distinction of clericus (cleric) and laicus (layman) developed into the social distinction of educated and ignorant.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Vivebat paulo ante [the Council of Pisa] quidam purum laicus, Nycholaus nomine.

The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler with Twenty-Five of his Sermons 1820-1884 1905

From the opening chapters the contradiction is apparent: _Ordinamus quod nullus recipiatur in ordine nostro nisi sit talis clericus qui sit competenter instructus in grammatica vel logica; aut nisi sit talis laicus de cujus ingressu esset valde celebris et edificatio in populo et in clero_.

Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893

From the obscure hints in the passage, a part of the poem may be approximately dated, -- if Hygelāc is the _Chochi-laicus_ of Gregory of Tours, _Hist.

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

From the obscure hints in the passage, a part of the poem may be approximately dated, -- if Hygelâc is the _Chochi-laicus_ of Gregory of Tours, _Hist.

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

CompH. non haUto refpeftu Vaflalli, live Clertcus, five laicus fit, quum eriam, hic in re Ec - clefiaflica judicio Ecclefie, fea Epifcopi fubfit.

Adm. rev. p. F. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica ... 1782

MS.Lanceloc. rizocATA, laicus incar fratrcs afi - cuius tercii ordinis relacus, Icalia PizzocherQ.

Glossarium manuale ad scriptores mediae et infimae Latinitatis Charles Du Fresne Du Cange 1778

[330] “Sed cum ipsi auctores, id est ipsi diaconi et presbyteri et episcopi fugiunt, quomodo laicus intellegere potuerit, qua ratione dictum: Fugite de civitate in civitatem?

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908