Definition of "indigent"
indigent
adjective
comparative more indigent, superlative most indigent
Quotations
In numerous Supreme Court decisions since Gideon v. Wainwright, the states have been required to provide counsel for indigent defendants at virtually all other stages of the criminal process, beginning with arrest and concluding with the defendant's release from the system.
2013, Larry J. Siegel, John L. Worral, Essentials of Criminal Justice, Wadsworth, page 162
(archaic) Utterly lacking or in need of something specified.
Quotations
Again some Bodies dissolve both in Fire and Water, as Gums; &c. And these are such, as have both Plenty of Spirit; and their tangible Parts indigent of Moisture: the former promotes the Dilatation of the Spirits by the Fire and the latter stimulates the Parts to receive the Liquor.
1620, Francis Bacon, Instauratio Magnus, Part III, Section ii, subsection "Liquifaction"
noun
plural indigents