† lazarousadj.
Obsolete.
Leprous. Also figurative.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adjective] > leprosy > afflicted with
leprous?c1225
meselc1300
leperc1400
meselinga1450
lazar1483
lazarous1536
leprosed1551
lepery1558
meselya1585
lepered1598
meseled1611
belepered1633
lazarly1634
leprosied1840
1536 in F. W. Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 47 v howsses of lazarus pepyll xxd.
?1541 R. Copland Maner to Examyne Lazares in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens sig. Qiij To habyte with a lazarous woman.
1635 A. Read Chirurg. Lect. Tumors & Vlcers 225 The Germans have many lazarous persons.
1652 T. Adams God's Anger & Man's Comfort 87 When that Angel from heaven, gracious repentance hath troubled the waters, the lazarous soul does but step into them, and is cured.
Derivatives
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > leprosy
spittle-evil?c1225
leperc1275
meselrya1387
lepraa1398
mesela1400
leprosy?a1450
leprosityc1451
lepryc1475
leperhood1491
leperhead1493
leprousnessa1500
lazaryc1503
meselnessc1520
tyre1547
lepernessa1557
satyriasis1587
lazarousness1648
leontiasis1753
cocobay1788
Hansen's disease1938
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Melaetscheyt, leprosie, or Lazerousnesse.
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