dispauperize

English

Etymology

dis- + pauperize

Verb

dispauperize (third-person singular simple present dispauperizes, present participle dispauperizing, simple past and past participle dispauperized)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To free from pauperism, or from paupers.
    • 1834, Evidence on Drunkenness: Presented to the House of Commons:
      Thomas Whately, of Cookham, a clergyman, to whom the country is much indebted for the example he has set in dispauperizing that parish, gave me a list of books, forming a tolerable library, which were in circulation amongst his parishioners of the labouring classes, by whom they are eagerly read []
    • 1835, The Farmer's Magazine, volume 3, page 301:
      In all our more recent reports from the dispauperized parishes, it is stated that the wages are improved, and that the amount paid is greater than in the adjacent pauperized parishes.
    • 1836, John Stuart Mill, “Municipal reform, as required for the metropolis”, in The London and Westminster Review, volume 25, page 72:
      How unsatisfactory would have been that attempt to dispauperize the labourer, if the operation of the Act had been limited to some of the worst regulated parishes!
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