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lazar

[ laz-er, ley-zer ]

noun

  1. a person infected with a disease, especially leprosy.


lazar

/ ˈ±ôæ³úÉ™ /

noun

  1. an archaic word for leper
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ±ô²¹³ú²¹°ù-ËŒ±ô¾±°ì±ð, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ±ô²¹³úa°ù·±ô¾±°ì±ð adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of lazar1

1300–50; Middle English < Medieval Latin lazarus leper, special use of Late Latin Lazarus Lazarus
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of lazar1

C14: via Old French and Medieval Latin, after Lazarus
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Example Sentences

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Perhaps they were dizzied by the lazar pens shone from the stands into a number of visiting players’ eyes over the course of the evening.

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Still, I haven't any home, you see, and I'm not sure that a lazar hospital of some kind isn't what is awaiting me.

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The merest sprinkling boasted of physical afflictions, and none exposed sores like the lazars of Italy or contortions like the cripples of Constantinople.

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Moreover, so constant and private in service was she to the lepers of the lazar house, both men and women, that the Holy Ghost dwelt within her.

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If, with much pains, and some success, I have drawn a deformed piece, there is as much of art, and as near an imitation of nature, in a lazar, as in a Venus.

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