Lazar

[læzә]

Definition

(n.) A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.

Edited by Estelle

Definition

n. one afflicted with a loathsome and pestilential disease like Lazarus the beggar.—ns. Lā′zar-house a lazaretto; Laz′arist a member of a R.C. order the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission founded by St Vincent de Paul in 1624.—adj. Lā′zar-like like a lazar: full of sores: leprous.

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