Also 7 lazarett, 8–9 lazarette, lazzaret. [a. F. lazaret, ad. It lazzaretto, now lazzeretto: see next.]
1. = LAZARETTO 1.
1611. Cotgr., Lazaret, a Lazaret, or Spittle for Lazers.
1667. Lond. Gaz., No. 135/2. The Grand Visier … has given order for … raising a Battery near the Lazaret.
1682. Wheler, Journ. Greece, I. 16. A large Lazarett, as the Italians call a Pest-house.
1783. Hamilton, in Phil. Trans., LXXIII. 201. The Lazaret has some cracks in it.
1826. Gazetteer Scot. (ed. 2), 128. A lazaret or hospital for the reception of sick.
1888. Daily News, 29 Nov., 4/8. The lazarets where the sick, without proper medical attention or proper care, so often find their welcome passport to the grave.
transf. and fig. a. 1711. Ken, Hymnotheo, Poet. Wks. 1721, III. 76. In the great Portico there Night and Day, A Lazaret of wounded Spirits lay.
1845. Sir H. Taylor, I. Comnenus, V. vii. Wks. 1864, II. 235. Man, for lack of manliness, is made A lazaret for the mind’s maladies.
2. = LAZARETTO 2.
1721. Act Parl., in Lond. Gaz., No. 5927/5. Such Ship, House, Lazaret, or other Place.
1769. Blackstone, Comm., IV. 162. The same penalty also attends persons escaping from the lazarets, or places wherein quarentine is to be performed.
1800. Act 39 & 40 Geo. III., c. 80 (title), An Act for erecting a Lazaret on Chetney Hill, in the County of Kent, and for reducing into one Act the Laws relating to Quarantine.
1860. Merc. Marine Mag., VII. 147. Only one box … was left in the lazarette.
1896. Daily News, 23 July, 5/4. Only then after purging five days’ quarantine in a lazaret that has been established at a point between Halfa and Sarras.
fig. 1819. Byron, Juan, II. ccxxv. The liver is the lazaret of bile.
3. = LAZARETTO 3.
1892. Stevenson & L. Osbourne, Wrecker, xi. 185. From the cabin the cook was storing tins into the lazarette.
1897. R. Kipling, Captains Courageous, 185. He rolled to the lazarette aft the cabin.
