Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Dives"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dives \Di"ves\, n. [L., rich.]
The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's
parable of the ``Rich Man and Lazarus'' (--Luke xvi. 19-31).
Hence, a name for a rich worldling.
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