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Definition of Lay reader
1. Noun. A layman who is authorized by the bishop to read parts of the service in an Anglican or Episcopal church.
Definition of Lay reader
1. Noun. (religion) A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead Church services. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lay Reader
Literary usage of Lay reader
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Led On!: Step by Step, Scenes from Clerical, Military, Educational, and by Anthony Toomer Porter (1898)
"... recalcitrant Standing Committee causes me to store my carpets—/ am appointed
as lay reader to a struggling mission—A beggarly upper room—Meanwhile I am ..."
2. Joseph Dennie and His Circle: A Study in American Literature from 1792-1812 by Milton Ellis (1915)
"... STUDENT AND lay reader; "THE FARRAGO" At Lexington Dennie remained, nursing
his wrath at "the dark and hollow manoeuvres of a club of stupid pedants,"1 ..."
3. The History of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut by Eben Edwards Beardsley (1874)
"... he walked over to Norwalk on Saturday, and officiated there as a lay reader
on Sunday, —using "a form of prayer extracted out of the Church Liturgy, ..."
4. Journal of the Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the Protestant by Episcopal Church (1888)
"Renewed lay reader's license of LX Perry and Charles B. Stilz, ... Renewed license
of HJ Fish, of Trinity Church, Michigan City, as lay reader. ..."
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