Brothers, LAY, an inferior class of monks, not in holy orders, but bound by monastic rules, and employed as servants in Monasteries (q.v.).
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Brothers, LAY, an inferior class of monks, not in holy orders, but bound by monastic rules, and employed as servants in Monasteries (q.v.).