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lazarly en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈleɪzə(ɹ)li/

Etymology

From lazar + -ly.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Full of sores; leprous.
   • The Church of Rome, unto her four famous Orders of Jacobins, Franciscans, Augustins, and Carmelites, hath added a fifth of Jesuits; and, like another Jerusalem, for those five leprous and lazarly Orders hath built five porches […] 1612–1634, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=I to VIII), London, →OCLC:

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