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Lay reader

noun

A layman who is authorized by the bishop to read parts of the service in an Anglican or Episcopal church.

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"Lay reader" Quotes from Famous Books

... them, and rest to wrap them.' I smiled. 'True enough in its way,' I said. 'There's another side doubtless, yet the preaching of that doesn't appeal to me particularly. I don't want to work on people's apprehensions. But don't let me stand in your light. You're a lay reader with a bishop's license. You can preach and welcome to-morrow morning.' 'Trust me not to refuse,' he said. 'I don't want to play up to apprehensions exactly. I want to state what seem to me to be relentless laws of cause and effect, ...

— Cinderella in the South - Twenty-Five South African Tales • Arthur Shearly Cripps

... say "livery"—as that furnished by Higginson's company to its people suggests the "hedger and ditcher" type of colonists (of whom there were very few among the Plymouth settlers), rather than the scholar, publisher, tradesman, physician, hatter, smith, carpenter, "lay reader," and soldier of the Pilgrims, and would certainly have been obnoxious to their finer sense of personal dignity and proportion. Doubtless an equivalent provision existed—though in less "all-of-a-pattern" character—in the bales and boxes of the MAY-FLOWER'S cargo for every ...

— The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete • Azel Ames

... American as an American, and not as a traveler or a naturalized citizen, the mission had disappeared from the land, and the land was inhabited by a race calling itself the gente de razon, in presumed contradistinction to human beasts with no reasoning powers. Of this period the lay reader finds such conflicting accounts that he either is bewildered or else boldly indulges his prejudices. According to one school of writers—mainly those of modern fiction—California before the advent of the gringo was a sort of Arcadian paradise, ...

— The Forty-Niners - A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado • Stewart Edward White

Words linked to "Lay reader" : layman, layperson, secular