Let us turn at last to practical questions presented for our consideration by an eminent layman whose field of work lies quite as much in religion and ethics, as it does, reaching to so splendid an eminence, in Art.
Most of the previous efforts have suffered from the carelessness with which this second step was ignored, and the special mental requirements were treated as a matter of course upon which any layman could judge.
A device which presupposes complicated instruments deters thelayman and will be used only by those who are well trained.
The psychological layman too seldom recognizes how many other psychical functions may play a rôle in the result of the experiment beside the one which is interesting him at that moment.
The good it is equipping itself to accomplish is beyond calculation--a work in which minister and layman will have equal voice and equal share.
The change from the time when every layman was a soldier, is very remarkable.
For several centuries, it was extremely rare to meet with a layman who could read or write; and of course it was still rarer to meet with one able to compose a work.
Such opponents were the more formidable, because in those happy days it was sacrilege for a layman to lay hands on a bishop.
Alexander met them outside Rome, attired like a layman in a black jerkin trimmed with gold brocade, and fastened round his waist by a Spanish girdle, from which hung his dagger.
But your Lordship replies that you are not willing that any layman should teach them to make the sign of the cross; accordingly nothing is done for them.
Any layman of average intelligence could see that the step was necessary; where did the opposition come from?
I don't think that Robert being a layman knows what a conclusion is insofar as the way the question was framed or insofar as the way it was responded to.
The ordinary layman by now knows my whole story, Chief Justice Warren.
The monks are by no means too strict with one another in the confessional, and impose a Paternoster in cases where they would refuse all absolution to a layman as if he were a heretic.
In his letters he appears as one of the earliest publicists, and is perhaps the first layman to publish political tracts in this form.
One who impropriates; specifically, a layman in possession of church property.
There are ten or more species of fir west of the Rocky Mountains, and to the layman they all look much alike, but to botanists they are interesting objects of study.
The only service which the figures can render to the layman is to furnish a basis for comparing one wood with another.
The layman detects the first important difference when he examines the seeds.
By some means, which a layman cannot mark down, Mr. Bone has suffused his drawing with his own sense of the tragic queerness of this vacuous and unnerved landscape.
The so-called mental diseases must make the impression on the layman of mental and psychic life fallen into decay.
As a rule the laymanrefuses to believe these theories of psychoanalysis.
The layman feels an extraordinary horror at the possibility of such an emotion and takes his aversion to it as a legitimate ground for disbelief in the assertions of psychoanalysis.
Destitute as I am of legal training, I leave this notable way of disposing of the evidence to the judgement of the Bench and the Bar, a layman intermeddleth not with it.
How can a layman pretend to deal with Shakespeare's legal attainments, after he has read the work of the learned Recorder of Bristol, Mr. Castle, K.
As to Will's law, when Mr. Greenwood and Mr. Castle differ, a layman dare not intervene.
Meanwhile the king appointed Sir Robert Bourchier chancellor, the first layman who ever held that office.
Nerses was a layman and was raised to the pontificate in one day.
To a layman of intellectual tastes among the Armenians of Turkey there is scarcely any other profession open than the honourable but ill-paid calling of a teacher.
Its first care, however, was to preserve secrecy and avert scandal, so that no layman should be admitted to knowledge of clerical delinquencies.
Had Mariana been a layman there would have been no trouble in punishing him severely, but to reach the Jesuit Philip invoked the papal nuncio Caraffa and the Toledo tribunal took a hand.
December 11th of the same year, Angel Sampayo, a married layman of Campo Ramiro (Lugo) was convicted of celebrating mass.
But whatlayman takes the slightest interest in these paper supremacies?
Every free laymanhaving ten marks in chattels shall have a habergeon, iron cap, and lance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "layman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: amateur; brother; catechumen; churchman; communicant; secular; sister
