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lazar - What does it mean?

Definition of 'lazar'

English

(wikipedia)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (archaic) A sufferer of an infectious disease, especially leprosy.
  • *, 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.
  • See also

    * Lazarus * leper ----