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The act of individualizing; the state of being individualized; individuation.

An epidemic affection characterized by acute nasal catarrh, or by inflammation of the throat or the bronchi, and usually accompanied by fever.

The state of being without organization.

Incapable of being oxidized; as, gold and platinum are inoxidizable in the air.

Enthronement. Bp. Warburton.

Not recognizable. Carlyle.

A variety of the chamois found in the Pyrenees.

See Izard.

A janizary. [R.] Byron.

Of or pertaining to the janizaries, or their government. Burke.

A soldier of a privileged military class, which formed the nucleus of the Turkish infantry, but was suppressed in 1826. [written also janissary.]

The act of Judaizing; a conforming to the Jewish religion or ritual. [R.]

The process by which feldspar is changed into kaolin.

The modification of an articulation by contraction of the lip opening.

The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country. The Germanization of Britain went far deeper than the Latinization of France. M. Arnold.

person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper. Chaucer. Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay. Spenser. Lazar house a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine.

Typhus fever.

A public building, hospital, or pesthouse for the reception of diseased persons, particularly those affected with contagious diseases.

Mission, a religious institute founded by Vincent de Paul in 1624, and popularly called Lazarists or Lazarites from the College of St. Lazare in Paris, which was occupied by them until 1792.

Full of sores; leprous. Shak. Bp. Hall.