lazar

plural lazars · alternative Lazar

1. archaicSynonym of leper: a person suffering from Hansen's disease; a person suffering any contagious disease requiring similar isolation.

   Why were they proud? Because fair orange-mounts Were of more soft ascent than lazar stairs?

   1820, John Keats, “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio.”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, stanza XVI, page 57

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   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.

   1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

   Synonyms: leper

alternative Lazar

1. archaicnot comparableSynonym of leprous: afflicted by Hansen's disease; afflicted by any contagious disease requiring similar isolation.

   Synonyms: leprous

1. A British surname.

1. A Serbian male given name from Serbo-Croatian.

   The Servians have a legend, which gives a terrible picture of this national virtue: “Day departs, and the moon shines upon the white fields of snow. A stranger enters the dwelling of poor Lazar.

   1857 May, “Life in Servia”, in The Young Men’s Magazine, volume 1, number 1, page 15

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   It was on the morning after the arrival of the Mussulman forces upon the plain of Kossova, that a herald, accompanied by a small escort, demanded an interview with the Sultan Murad, on the part of his master, Lazar, the King of Servia.

   1861, George W. M. Reynolds, “The Death of Murad”, in The Young Fisherman, and Other Stories, London: John Dicks, page 88

alternative Laser · alternative Lazer

1. An Ashkenazi Jewish surname.

   At that time S.M. Lazar, editor in Cracow of the new Hebrew nespaper, Ha-Miṣpeh, had accused Hurwitz and his editor, Yosef Klausner, of anarchism, sacrilege, and “missionizing.”

   1980, Stanley Nash, In Search of Hebraism (Studies in Judaism in Modern Times; 3), Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 191

plural Lazars

1. Alternative letter-case form of lazar.