dizzard

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Definition of dizzard in English English dictionary

An idiot

Lactantius, in his book of Wisdom, proves them to be dizzards, fools, asses, madmen, so full of absurd and ridiculous tenets and brain-sick positions, that to his thinking never any old woman doted worse.

A jester or fool

[Obs

] [Written also dizard, and disard

A blockhead

Etymology

() Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of disour.