Lay-brother

Quick meaning: Lay-brother is a noun meaning Archaic form of lay brother.

Meaning

Archaic form of lay brother.

Example Sentences

The architecture of the cathedral, and of most of the churches, is likewise ascribed to the lay-brothers of that community.

“Ay, ruin follows us every where,” said an old man, with a spade in his hand, and dressed like a lay-brother, of whose presence, in the vehemence of his exclamation, the Abbot had not been aware—[…]

It has always struck us that the life of the lay-brethren of that great order which has done so much for the Church of God is one of the most striking features of its history; and this was a lay-brother indeed.

Indeed, the continual rounds performed by the lay-brothers of that and by those of the later reformed Franciscans, give these societies an immediate access to the people, not possessed by the Dominicans and other friars who do not go abroad to beg.

Word Forms

• lay-brothers
• lay-brethren

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