"Laical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... my masters," said the Prior, "ere you put your hand on the Church's patrimony—These things are 'inter res sacras', and I wot not what judgment might ensue were they to be handled by laical hands." ...
— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott
... protested that he had been on earth but a simple laic, which was indeed the fact, and was also the reason why Eulogius and Eucherius despised him, but which, though he did not think it needful to tell the demon, he found a singular ...
— The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales • Richard Garnett |
