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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

indigent

, L.

indigens

, p. p. of

indigere

to stand in need of, fr. OL.

indu

(fr.

in-

in) + L.

egere

to be needy, to need.]

Wanting; void; free; destitute; – used with of.

[Obs.]

Bacon.

Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous.

Indigent

faint souls past corporal toil.

Shakespeare

Charity consists in relieving the

indigent

Addison.

Adj.

[L. indigens.] Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor.

Charity consists in relieving the indigent.