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Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty.

be informed of the matter that lies before him. Addison. Dryden was poor and impatient of poverty. Macaulay.

To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.

The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty. Sir W. Scott.

erity, or increases the difficulty of action or success; as, one inconvenience of life is poverty. A place upon the top of Mount Athos above all clouds of rain, or other inconvenience. Sir W. Raleigh. Man is liable to a great many inconveniences. Tillotson.

condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence. Cowper.

im the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy.

The state or quality of being lazy. Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him. Franklin.

For Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Prov. xx. 18. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth he standeth take heed lest he fall. I Cor. x. 12.

; aspect; as, the house has a gloomy look; the affair has a bad look. Pain, disgrace, and poverty have frighted looks. Locke. There was something that reminded me of Dante's Hell in the look of this. Carlyle.

In subjection, poverty, or disgrace; as, to be brought low by oppression, by want, or by vice. Spenser.

n respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge. Mistake me not so much, To think my poverty is treacherous. Shak.

ty of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty. "A monk out of his cloister." Chaucer. Monks in some respects agree with regulars, as in the substantial vows of religion; but in other respects monks and regulars differ; for that regulars, vows excepted, are not tied up…

Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty. Necessitous heirs and penurious parents. Arbuthnot.

pressing need; indigence; want. Urge the necessity and state of times. Shak. The extreme poverty and necessity his majesty was in. Clarendon.

Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution. Chaucer. Famine is in thy cheeks; Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes. Shak.

The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.

A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. They holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration. Wordsworth.

or adverse reason. He gave to him to object his heinous crime. Spencer. Others object the poverty of the nation. Addison. The book ... giveth liberty to object any crime against such as are to be ordered. Whitgift.

here more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also Observants.