Lazarus /ˈlæzəɹəs/noun 2verb 2forms 3 noun2 •(figurative) A person who was deceased and has been resurrected; a deceased person who could potentially be resurrected.This was the classic age of all the various exhumations, restorations, and resurrections; it was a retrospective time — a time of ghosts and Lazaruses, more or less decomposed. — 1855 •A poor person, a beggar.And do you not think, that all these poor Lazaruses, that you have persecuted, and do persecute, that when they die, they will not be carried into Abraham's bosom? — 1706 verb2 •To raise from the dead. •To rescue a dying person. formsLazarused · Lazarusing · Lazaruses
