What is the laity; the common people. [Obs.] The learned have no more privilege than the lay. B. Jonson called?
lay — The laity; the common people. [Obs.] The learned have no more privilege than the lay. B. Jonson. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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