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Definition of Pauperise
1. Verb. Reduce to beggary.
Generic synonyms: Impoverish
Derivative terms: Beggar, Pauperisation, Pauper, Pauperization, Pauperization
Definition of Pauperise
1. Verb. (alternative spelling of pauperize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pauperise
Literary usage of Pauperise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Efficiency and Empire by Arnold White (1901)
"That the struggle for life among professional philanthropists tends to pauperise
the masses by killing the wish for self-help, and thus bequeaths to ..."
2. A homiletical commentary on the Books of Kings by George Barlow (1885)
"Indiscriminate charity does more to pauperise than to really help. 11.13).
The prophet was not unmindful of the thoughtfulness and liberality with -which he ..."
3. Report from the Select Committee on Education: Together with the Proceedings (1865)
"JF*. there is no tendency to pauperise whilst the people Temple, DD themselves
are required to pay, at any rate, their share ; at least, no greater tendency ..."
4. Haileybury College, Past and Present by Lionel Sumner Milford (1909)
"A room inhabited by four boys, who there feed and " pauperise," and also engage
... To " pauperise " is to act in a manner less dignified than one's social ..."
5. Papers & Essays for Churchmen by David McConnell Steele (1919)
"You no more pauperise five hundred workingmen by building for them a place of
pleasurable resort than you pauperise the same number of college students by ..."
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