Laity /(lā"ĭ*ty̆)/

La·i·ty

Laity

n.
  1. The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.
    A rising up of the laity against the sacerdotal caste.
  2. The state of a layman. [Obs.]
  3. Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.