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English
Etymology
From dis- + pauperize.
Verb
dispauperize (third-person singular simple present dispauperizes, present participle dispauperizing, simple past and past participle dispauperized)
- (transitive, obsolete) To free from pauperism, or from paupers.
1834, Evidence on Drunkenness: Presented to the House of Commons:Thomas Whately, of Cookham, a clergyman, to whom the country is much indebted for the example he has set in dispauperizing that parish, gave me a list of books, forming a tolerable library, which were in circulation amongst his parishioners of the labouring classes, by whom they are eagerly read […]
1835, The Farmer's Magazine, volume 3, page 301:In all our more recent reports from the dispauperized parishes, it is stated that the wages are improved, and that the amount paid is greater than in the adjacent pauperized parishes.
1836, John Stuart Mill, “Municipal reform, as required for the metropolis”, in The London and Westminster Review, volume 25, page 72:How unsatisfactory would have been that attempt to dispauperize the labourer, if the operation of the Act had been limited to some of the worst regulated parishes!