lazarly

English

Etymology

lazar +‎ -ly

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈleɪzə(ɹ)li/

Adjective

lazarly (comparative more lazarly, superlative most lazarly)

  1. (obsolete) Full of sores; leprous.
    • 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volumes (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
      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 […]
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