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Definition of Lazar
1. Noun. A person afflicted with leprosy.
Definition of Lazar
1. n. A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.
Definition of Lazar
1. Noun. (archaic) A sufferer of an infectious disease, especially leprosy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lazar
1. a beggar afflicted with a loathsome disease [n -S]
Medical Definition of Lazar
1. A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper. "Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay." (Spenser) Lazar house a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine. Origin: OF. Lazare, fr. Lazarus the beggar. Luke xvi. 20. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lazar
Literary usage of Lazar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. La Mort D'Arthure: The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the by Thomas Malory (1858)
"And when he came there he was gone, and then he 1 A lazar-coate.—The cottage of
a lazar or leper. The lazars were compelled to live apart from other people, ..."
2. Kosšovo: Heroic Songs of the Serbs by Helen Rootham (1920)
"... Leave me one at least of these my brothers, That I have a brother left to
swear by." Then the Serbian prince lazar makes answer: " Oh dear lady, ..."
3. A survey of London by John Stow (1842)
"... PEOPLE, AND lazar HOUSES. IT is to observed that leprous persons were always,
for avoiding the danger of infection, to be separated from the sound, ..."
4. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, Alfred William Pollard, William Caxton (1900)
"... which was put in a lazar-cote, and how Tristram was hurt. ... Sir, said
Gouvernail, she is put in a lazar-cote. Alas, said Sir VOL. ..."
5. Heroic Ballads of Servia by Leonard Bacon (1913)
"TIAK lazar sat at dinner, and with him at the wine Sat ... To her spake lazar of
the Serbs: "Which wilt thou have with thec In the palace? ..."
6. The Church at Home and Abroad by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A, General Assembly (1888)
"lazar BEGH. This is the good Nestorian whom the missionaries in Persia often ...
lazar was there to meet us, and had been waiting a number of days for our ..."
7. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"... Burton St. lazar of Jerusalem, in Leicestershire. When the gallows was removed
from the Elms in Smithfield, about the year 1413, it was erected at the ..."
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