Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A diseased person; a leper.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A leper; also, a person infected with any loathsome disease; especially, a beggar so diseased.
  • Having a loathsome disease; leprous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.
  • noun a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun archaic A sufferer of an infectious disease, especially leprosy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person afflicted with leprosy

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old French lazre, from Late Latin Lazarus, Lazarus, the beggar full of sores in a New Testament parable (Luke 16:20).]

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From the biblical Lazarus (Luke XVI.20).

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Examples

  • She walked through halls still stained with blood from the dreadful Night of the Risen Dead'the term the lazar used when they spoke of their triumph.

    Into the Labyrinth Hickman, Tracy 1993

  • It became conspicuous in medieval Europe, prompting the founding of “lazar houses,” or refuges where doomed lepers could rot apart from “clean” folk.

    Religion 2009

  • Without arguing this matter of my general reputation, accepting it at its current face value, let me add that I have indeed lived life in a very rough school and have seen more than the average man's share of inhumanity and cruelty, from the forecastle and the prison, the slum and the desert, the execution-chamber and the lazar-house, to the battlefield and the military hospital.

    FOREWORD 2010

  • The articles and interviews with bob lazar, however, state that the craft uses wave guides to guide the gravity waves and gravity amplifiers to amplify the waves.

    Model Ufo | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • It became conspicuous in medieval Europe, prompting the founding of “lazar houses,” or refuges where doomed lepers could rot apart from “clean” folk.

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog 2009

  • It became conspicuous in medieval Europe, prompting the founding of “lazar houses,” or refuges where doomed lepers could rot apart from “clean” folk.

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • It became conspicuous in medieval Europe, prompting the founding of “lazar houses,” or refuges where doomed lepers could rot apart from “clean” folk.

    History 2009

  • It became conspicuous in medieval Europe, prompting the founding of “lazar houses,” or refuges where doomed lepers could rot apart from “clean” folk.

    The Apostle to the Lepers 2009

  • It became conspicuous in medieval Europe, prompting the founding of “lazar houses,” or refuges where doomed lepers could rot apart from “clean” folk.

    Saints 2009

  • "I will give one thousand sucres to the lazar-house of Quito if a bull kills a man this day."

    The Madness of John Harned 2010

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