Word Meanings - LAICALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

As a layman; after the manner of a layman; as, to treat a matter laically.

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• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• AFTERSHAFT
  The hypoptilum.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• TREATABLY
  In a treatable manner.
• LAICALLY
  As a layman; after the manner of a layman; as, to treat a matter laically.
• AFTER DAMP
  An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
• AFTER-NOTE
  One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.
• TREAT
  To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient. 6. To subject to some action; to apply something to; as, to treat a substance with sulphuric acid. Ure.
• TREATER
  One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• AFTERWISE
  Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• AFTERINGS
  The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. Grose.
• AFTER-EATAGE
  Aftergrass.
• AFTERGUARD
  The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails. Totten.
• MATTERLESS
  1. Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies 2. Unimportant; immaterial.
• AFTER-DINNER
  The time just after dinner. "An after-dinner's sleep." Shak. -- a.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• MALTREATMENT
  Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
• CRAFTER
  a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman.
• ENTREATFUL
  Full of entreaty. See Intreatful.
• THEREAFTER
  1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison,
• INTREAT
  See SPENSER