Lāz'ar-ist or Lāz'ar-ite, n.

(Rom. Cath. Church.) One of a religious order founded by Vincent de Paul, in 1617, approved in 1626, and erected into a congregation in 1632, and so called from the priory of St. Lazarus, in Paris, which was occupied by the order during the French revolution. The members of the order are called also Priests of the Mission, and are chiefly engaged in teaching, and in missionary labors among the poor.