[ad. F. lazariste, f. the proper name Lazare, Lazarus.] ‘The popular name for the “Congregation of the Priests of the Mission” founded by St. Vincent of Paul in 1624, and established a few years later in the College of St. Lazare at Paris’ (Catholic Dict., 1885).
1747. Gentl. Mag., 570. Jesuits, Oratorians,… Lazarists, and other whimsical orders.
1768. Boswell, Corsica, i. (ed. 2), 23. There is here a convent of Lazarists or missionaries.
1900. Ch. Times, 30 Nov., 614/2. The stupendous labours of Lazarists, of Jesuits, of Marist Fathers in China.
So † Lazarite in the same sense.
1727–52. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Lazarus, Fathers of S. Lazarus, called also Lazarites.
