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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Laity, -ie, Layettie, n. [e.m.E. laitie (1541), laytie, layetie.] The laity. — 1638 Hamilton P. (Camden Soc.) 25.
Differenses betwixt the ministers and layettie about the choyseng of the Commissioners for the assemblie 1639 Fugitive Poetry II. xvi. 5.
Such tenetts I could never blesse In clergie men nor laitie 1666–71 Misc. Hist. Soc. II. 351.
St Cyprian … advised more with the Church (I mean the laitie) than is now done