lay reader

As a consecutive account for the lay reader, this would be hard to beat.

For the lay reader, though, the book is too respectful to make good reading.

Women have been lay readers for a long time.

After that no more lay readers were appointed until 1969.

But he has little to report that any interested lay reader would not have seen many times elsewhere.

No more female lay readers were then appointed until 1969.

There, he began a second career writing about the history of science primarily for lay readers.

Under these circumstances, what is a lay reader to do?

The book, his third for lay readers, was written on and off over a 12-year period, mostly in Kenya.

His father, who worked as an insurance agent, was a licensed lay reader.