n. [ L. See Poor. ] A very poor person; one without any means of support, especially one dependent on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pauper immigrants, pauper labor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. paupérisme. ] The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community. Whatly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Poverty; indigence; penury; want; need; destitution. See Poverty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of reducing to pauperism. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pauperized p. pr. & vb. n. Pauperizing ] To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry. [ 1913 Webster ]