Meanings
nounlay reader (plural lay readers)
plural lay readers
- lifestyleA person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead Church services.
The Sabbath with us was literally a day of rest. The doctor, who was a licensed lay reader, read the service, and we managed to form a choir, composed of my sister and those of the staff who cared to join it.
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 80
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