[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

laity \la"ity\ l=a"i^ty^, n. see lay, a.
   1. the people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of
      the people not in orders.
      1913 webster

            a rising up of the laity against the sacerdotal
            caste.                                --macaulay.
      1913 webster

   2. the state of a layman. obs. --ayliffe.
      1913 webster

   3. those who are not of a certain profession, as law or
      medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.
      1913 webster
see also:
lay 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

laity
     n : everyone except the clergy syn: temporalty ant: clergy
see also:
temporalty clergy 

[3] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

laity. those persons who do not make a part of the clergy. in the united 
states the division of the people into clergy and laity is not authorized by 
law, but is, merely conventional. 

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