dispauperize, v.
(dɪsˈpɔːpəraɪz)
[f. dis- 6 + pauperize.]
trans. a. To release or free from the state of pauperism. Also fig. b. To free (a community or locality) from paupers.
| 1833 New Monthly Mag. XXXVII. 283 What chance do you see of dispauperizing any of the paupers? 1848 Mill Pol. Econ. v. xi. §13 (1876) 585 Many highly pauperized districts..have been dispauperized by adopting strict rules of poor-law administration. 1874 Contemp. Rev. XXIV. 965 The boy was thoroughly dispauperized in spirit. |
Hence disˈpauperized ppl. a.; -iˈzation.
| 1834 1st Rep. Poor Law Comm. (1885) 163 The principle of relief..found so efficient in the dispauperized parishes. 1876 Pretyman (title), Dispauperization, a popular Treatise on Poor-Law Evils and their Remedies. |