La"i*ty (?), n. [See Lay, a.]
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.
Macaulay.
2.
The state of a layman.
[Obs.]
Ayliffe.
3.
Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.
© Webster 1913.