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Lazʹarists

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A body of missionaries founded by St. Vincent de Paul in 1624, and so termed from the priory of St. Lazare, at Paris, which was their head-quarters from 1632 to 1792.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Lay Brothers
Lay Figures
Lay Out (To)
Lay about One (To)
Lay by the Heels (To)
Lay of the Last Minstrel
Lay to One’s Charge (To)
Layamon
Layers-over for Meddlers
Lazar House or Lazaretto
Lazarists
Lazarillo de Tormës (1553)
Lazarone
Lazarus
Lazy
Lazy Lawrence of Lubberland
Lazy Lobkin (A)
Lazy Man’s Load
Lazyland (Gone to)
Lazzaroni
LÉtat cest Moi (I am the State)