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■when his body was found near the town of Citium, in a 
marble tomb, the infcription whereof imported, that this 
was Lazarus beloved by Jefus Chrift, and raifed again by 
him. Calmet. 
LAZ'ARUS (St.), the name of an ecclefiaftical fraternity 
of knights. See the article Knighthood, vol. xi. p. 796. 
f LAZ'ICA, in ancient geography, a country of Afia, 
fouth of the Phafis, and north of Armenia. This coun¬ 
try was inhabited by a tribe of people called Lazi, who 
have to this day preferved their name, and are known 
among the Turks under the denomination of Lazas, and 
their country is called the Country of the Lazas, or the 
Province of Trebizond. In the time of Pliny, Arrian, 
and Ptolemy, the Lazi were a particular tribe on the north¬ 
ern fkirts of Colchos. In the age of Juftinian, they fpread, 
or at leaft reigned, over the whole country. At prefent 
they have migrated along the coaft towards Trebizond, 
and compofe a rude fea-faring people, with a peculiar 
language.. 
LA'ZILY, adv. [from lazy.'] Idly; fluggiftily; heavily. 
—Watch him at play, when following his own inclina¬ 
tions ; and fee whether he be ftirring and active, or whe¬ 
ther he lazily and liftlefsly dreams away his time. Locke. 
The eaftern nations view the riling fires, 
Whilft night fhades us, and lazily retires. Creech. 
LA'ZINESS, f. Idlenefs; fluggiftinefs; liftleflnefs; hea- 
vinefs in action; tardinefs.—That inftance of fraud and 
lazinefs , the unjuft fteward, who pleaded that he could 
neither dig nor beg, would quickly have been brought 
both to dig and to beg too, rather than ftarve. South. 
LA'ZING, adj. Sluggifh ; idle.—The hands and the 
feet mutinied againft the belly ; they knew no reafon, 
why the one fhould be lazing, and pampering itfelf with 
the fruit of the other’s labour. L'EJlrange. 
LAZI'SE, a town of Italy, in the Veronefe, on the eaft 
bank of Lake Garda, with a harbour, a cuftom-houfe, and 
a caftle : five miles weft of Verona. 
LA'ZIUS (Wolfgang), an induftrious writer on hiftory 
and antiquities, was born in 1514, at Vienna, where his 
father, Simon, pra&iled as a phyfician. Wolfgang com¬ 
menced a teacher in the belles-lettres, but was at length 
nominated to a profefTorfhip of medicine in Vienna, which 
he occupied during nineteen years, till his death in 1565. 
He was an extremely ftudious man, and left many proofs 
of his refearches into Greek and Roman hiftory, and into 
the antiquities of his own country. The emperor Ferdi¬ 
nand I. nominated him one of his counfellors, and con¬ 
ferred upon him the order of knighthood. His principal 
works are, 1. Commentariorum Rerum Grascarum, Lib. ii. 
folio, 1558. 2. Comment. Reipublicae Roman® in ex- 
teris provinciis. Lib. xii. folio, 1598. 3. De Gentium 
Migrationibus, folio, 1600. 4. Chorographia Pannoniae. 
5. Alvearium Antiquitatis. 6. In Genealogium Auftria- 
cum Comment. His letters were publillied collectively 
at Frankfort, in 2 vols. folio, 1698. Tluani Hifl. 
LAZ'ULI. See Lazulus. 
LAZ'ULUS, / Lapis Lazuli, or Lazulite, in mi¬ 
neralogy, a genus of filiceous earth—Confiding of filex, 
with a lefs proportion of alumine and carbonat of lime, 
and a fmall quantity of fulphat of lime and oxyd of iron ; 
opake, hardifh, blue, denfe, without internal luftre, break¬ 
ing into indeterminate fragments, producing a white pow¬ 
der when pounded ; neither lofing its colour nor effer- 
vefcing from acids fprinkled on it, melting eafily in the 
fire into a frothy flag. 
There is but one lpecies, called Lazulus Orientalis, the 
lazulite of Haiiy. It is found on the confines of Siberia, 
Tartary, and China, generally in folid mafles, and ufually 
full of veins of quartz, limeftone, and pyrites; colour 
fky-blue, often with white or yellow fpots or veins ; if 
calcined, it effervefces a little with acids, and forms with 
them a gelatinous mafs ; it retains its colour a long time 
in the fire, but at laft becomes brown ; when boiled in 
concentrated vitriolic acid, it diffolves fiowly, and lofes 
Vgl. XII. No. 340. 
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its colour. Specific gravity from 276 to *'94; contains 
filex 46, alumine 14*5, carbonat of lime 28, fulphat of lime 
6‘5, oxyd of iron 3, water 2. 
It is the pierre d'azur of Brochant and other mineralo* 
gifts, from its blue colour: but, according to Haiiy, the 
Arabians call this mineral by the name of azul-, and hence 
the term lazuli. The blue colour of lapis lazuli was for¬ 
merly fuppoled by molt mineralogifts to be owing to the 
prefence of copper; of which however not the leaft paf- 
ticle is contained, as appears by the foregoing analylis. 
Wellerius thought that it was coloured by lilver; but this 
is alfo a miftake. Lapis lazuli frequently contains iron 
pyrites, difleminated through its fubftance in fpecks and 
veins. It has not yet been found cryftallized. In the 
mafs, this fubftance is ufed for ornamental purpofes ;• 
when feparated from the matrix in the ftate of powder, it 
is ufed as a pigment, and is called ultramarine: Baccius 
fays it is probably fo called becaufe it exceeds the colour 
of the lea; but this etymology feems fanciful; perhaps- 
it was fo called in confequence of its being imported into 
Europe from beyond fea; for, according to Jamefon, 
it has not been met with in Europe except among the 
ruins of Rome. The colour is prepared by calcining the 
mineral, pounding and wafliing it; and colletting the 
fediment. Kidd's Mineralogy. 
Tavernier fays that it is found near Thibet. Accord¬ 
ing to Mr. Kirwan, it is found only on the confines of Si¬ 
beria and Tartary, or China; and lately, as is reported, 
in America. It was called Cuprum lazuli by Linnaeus; 
but is diftinguifhed from blue copper ore by retaining its 
colour in an ordinary heat. Gmelin calls it Lazurus, and 
places it among the Calcareous Earths; Dr. Turton has 
removed it. 
The method of making the Venetian counterfeit lapis 
lazuli is this: Melt in a pot, in a glafs-houfe furnace,.. 
equal quantities of the faireft lattimo and the whiteft 
cryftalline glafs ; when this is in fufion, mix into it, by 
fmall parcels at a time, the blue fmalt ufed by the paint¬ 
ers; make frequent proofs of the colour ; and, when it is 
right, let the whole ftand twelve hours, and then work it. 
If the metal rife in the pot, put in a piece of leaf-gold to 
keep it down. This makes a fine pale blue fubftance, re- 
prefenting the plain blue parts of the natural lapis lazuli. 
A counterfeit lapis lazuli may be alfo made by fufing ten 
pounds of either of the compofitions for hard glafs with arc 
ounce and a half of zafter, and half an ounce of magnefia, 
till a very deep tranfparent blue glafs be produced. When 
the mafs is cold, powder it, and mix with it three quar¬ 
ters of a pound of calcined bones, horn, or ivory, by 
grinding them together; then fufe this mixture with a 
moderate heat, till the ingredients are thoroughly incor¬ 
porated, and form the melted mafs into cakes by pouring 
it on a clean bright plate of copper or iron. In order to 
give it veins of gold, mix gold powder with an equal 
weight of calcined borax, and temper them with oil of 
fpike ; let the cakes be painted with this mixture with 
frefti veins as are delired, and then put into a furnace of a 
moderate heat. See Monthly Mag. for Dec. 1811. 
LA'ZY, adj. [This word is derived by fome per- 
fons, with great probability, from a I'aife, Fr. at eafe ; it 
is how'ever Teutonic ; lijftr in Danifli, and lojigh in Dutch, 
have the fame meaning.] Idle; fluggilh ; unwilling to 
work.—What amazing ftupidity is it, for men to be* - ne¬ 
gligent of falvation themfelves! to fit down lazy and un- 
aftive. Rogers. 
The lazy glutton fafe at home will keep, 
Indulge his floth, and batten with his fleep. Dryden. 
Slow; tedious.—The ordinary method for recruiting their 
armies, was now too dull and lazy an expedient to rtfift 
this torrent. Clarendon. 
LA'ZY-PACING, adj. Pacing flowly.—When he be- 
ftrides the lazy-pacing clouds. Shake/peare. 
LAZZAREL'LI (Gianfrancefco), an Italian comic 
poet, was a native of Gubbio. After fuftaining feveral 
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