Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- After the manner of a layman or the laity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb As a layman; after the manner of a layman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb As a
layman .
Etymologies
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laic + -ally
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Examples
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Happy “fêtes de fin d’année” as the French laically insist on saying!
hiatus interruptus 2008
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