Lazer vs Lazar - What's the difference?
lazer | lazar |
(archaic) A sufferer of an infectious disease, especially leprosy.
*, II.37:
*:And Tamburlane cloked the fantasticall cruelty, he exercised upon Lazars or Leprousmen, with a foolish kinde of humanitie, putting all he could finde or heare-of, to death, (as he said,) to ridde them from so painefull and miserable a life, as they lived.