What is "lay person"

Usage examples of "lay person".

But just as a lay person with no more training than any teacher gets, I'd guess high-functioning autistic for both of them, Duane and Jim.

Such things sound farfetched to the lay person, but everything has been thoroughly researched and documented.

The book's intent is to demonstrate one older lay person's approach to fostering interaction between generations in the context of family, school and culture.

In no way, either from his work record or his family life or from his friends, could the ordinary lay person have foreseen that he would kill a man in cold blood.

Ideally, for them, not only would a nun never leave the walls of her convent, but no lay person would ever enter within them, either.

Thus the animal locates itself in space by use of environmental reference points (this is of course more or less what a psychologically untutored lay person might have guessed would happen, but it was not what psychologists brought up on a diet of Skinner would have theorized).

Please do not think I am impertinent if I say that neither you nor any other lay person, however much involved, has the power to stop the machine of justice or indeed to influence it in any way whatever.

Which of the marauding peoples from the island's storied history had built it was difficult for a lay person to say.