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Webster 1913 Edition


Lazar

La′zar

,
Noun.
[OF.
lazare
, fr.
Lazarus
the beggar.
Luke xvi
.
20
.]
A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.
Chaucer.
Like loathsome
lazars
, by the hedges lay.
Spenser.
Lazar house
a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine.

Webster 1828 Edition


Lazar

LA'ZAR

,
Noun.
[from Laxarus.] A person infected with nauseous and pestilential disease.

Definition 2024


Lazar

Lazar

See also: lazar and Lázár

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Lȁzār m (Cyrillic spelling Ла̏за̄р)

  1. A male given name, Lazarus.

Declension

lazar

lazar

See also: Lazar and Lázár

English

Noun

lazar (plural lazars)

  1. (archaic) A sufferer of an infectious disease, especially leprosy.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.37:
      And Tamburlane cloked the fantasticall cruelty, he exercised upon Lazars or Leprousmen, with a foolish kinde of humanitie, putting all he could finde or heare-of, to death, (as he said,) to ridde them from so painefull and miserable a life, as they lived.

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Spanish

Verb

lazar (first-person singular present lazo, first-person singular preterite lacé, past participle lazado)

  1. to lasso something.

Conjugation

  • Rule: z becomes a c before e.

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