A person who has taken the vows of a religious order but is not ordained or obliged to take part in the full cycle of liturgy and is employed in ancillary or manual work.
非神职修士（常担任杂役），平信徒修士
Example sentencesExamples
He came from Toledo and was a famous painter of still lifes there by 1603 when he professed as a lay brother in the Carthusian order and moved to Granada.
It became one of the largest Cistercian houses, with 140 monks, 240 lay brothers, and at least as many again servants.
There were some 60 monks at Duiske, and many more lay brothers.
Traveling with him is a lay brother riding a beautiful horse, and a dark-skinned man, his dress a mixture of monastic robe and military garb.
There are never enough priests and lay brothers and sisters to go round.
One of the monks, an elderly lay brother named Luc, was a medical doctor who ran a clinic for the impoverished locals.
Definition of lay brother in US English:
lay brother
noun
A man who has taken the vows of a religious order but is not ordained or obliged to take part in the full cycle of liturgy and is employed in ancillary or manual work.
非神职修士（常担任杂役），平信徒修士
Example sentencesExamples
He came from Toledo and was a famous painter of still lifes there by 1603 when he professed as a lay brother in the Carthusian order and moved to Granada.
One of the monks, an elderly lay brother named Luc, was a medical doctor who ran a clinic for the impoverished locals.
There were some 60 monks at Duiske, and many more lay brothers.
It became one of the largest Cistercian houses, with 140 monks, 240 lay brothers, and at least as many again servants.
Traveling with him is a lay brother riding a beautiful horse, and a dark-skinned man, his dress a mixture of monastic robe and military garb.
There are never enough priests and lay brothers and sisters to go round.