Syn.
— Poverty; indigence; penury; want; need; destitution. See Poverty.
PAUPERIZATION
Pau`per*i*za"tion, n.
Defn: The act or process of reducing to pauperism. C. Kingsley.
PAUPERIZE
Pau"per*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pauperized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pauperizing.]
Defn: To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry.
PAUROPODA
Pau*rop"o*da, n. pl. Etym: [NL., from Gr. -poda.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and destitute of tracheæ.
PAUSE
Pause, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. pausa. See Pose.]
1. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
2. Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt. I stand in pause where I shall first begin. Shak.