"lay reader" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 80:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead Church services."
      ],
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        [
          "ordained",
          "ordained"
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          "Church",
          "church"
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        "(religion) A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead Church services."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Lay preacher"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "US"
          ],
          "word": "Lay speaker in the United Methodist Church"
        },
        {
          "word": "Local preacher in the UK Methodist Church and the Uniting Church in Australia"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle",
        "religion"
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  "word": "lay reader"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Lay preacher"
    },
    {
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        "US"
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      "word": "Lay speaker in the United Methodist Church"
    },
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    }
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          "ref": "1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 80:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead Church services."
      ],
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        "(religion) A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead Church services."
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