different between layman vs laicize

English

Etymology

From Middle English lay +? man.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?m?n/
• Rhymes: -e?m?n

Noun

layman (plural laymen)

1. Layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy.
2. (by extension) Someone who is not a professional in a given field.

3. A common person.
4. A person who is untrained or lacks knowledge of a subject.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 221d.

     should he be held to be just a layman, or does he have some art?

5. A generally ignorant person.
6. Lay-sister or lay-brother, person received into a convent of monks, following the vows, but not being member of the order.

Antonyms

• cleric
• priest
• monk
• friar
• expert
• specialist
• professional

Derived terms

• in layman's terms

Related terms

• laity

Translations

Anagrams

• yalman

English

Etymology

From laic (“layperson”) +? -ize (“verbal suffix”).

Verb

laicize (third-person singular simple present laicizes, present participle laicizing, simple past and past participle laicized)

1. (transitive) To convert from church controlled to independent of the church; to secularize.

   They will laicise each of the schools in the district.

2. (transitive) To reduce from clergy to layman.

   Due to his controversial views the Vatican decided to laicise the priest.

3. (intransitive) To convert to lay status.

   The soup kitchen laicised, it moved out of the church and registered as an independent non-profit.

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