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Presbytery :: Presbytery (n.) A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a certain district, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each parish or church, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction with the pastor. This body has a general jurisdiction over the churches under its care, and next below the provincial synod in authority..

Impropriation :: Impropriation (n.) The act of putting an ecclesiastical benefice in the hands of a layman, or lay corporation..

Laical :: Laical (a.) Of or pertaining to a layman or the laity.

Laicality :: Laicality (n.) The state or quality of being laic; the state or condition of a layman.

Impropriator :: Impropriator (n.) One who impropriates; specifically, a layman in possession of church property..

Clerk :: Clerk (n.) A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it..

Impropriate :: Impropriate (a.) Put into the hands of a layman; impropriated.

Laically :: Laically (adv.) As a layman; after the manner of a layman; as, to treat a matter laically..

Laic :: Laic (n.) A layman.

Layship :: Layship (n.) The condition of being a layman.

Revivalist :: Revivalist (n.) A clergyman or layman who promotes revivals of religion; an advocate for religious revivals; sometimes, specifically, a clergyman, without a particular charge, who goes about to promote revivals. Also used adjectively..

Secular :: Secular (n.) A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman..

Laity :: Laity (a.) The state of a layman.

Impropriate :: Impropriate (v. t.) To place the profits of (ecclesiastical property) in the hands of a layman for care and disbursement.

Chaplain :: Chaplain (n.) Any person (clergyman or layman) chosen to conduct religious exercises for a society, etc.; as, a chaplain of a Masonic or a temperance lodge..

Layman :: Layman (n.) A lay figure. See under Lay, n. (above)..

Impropriation :: Impropriation (n.) A benefice in the hands of a layman, or of a lay corporation..

Layman :: Layman (n.) One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do..

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