Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Indigent

Indigent , adjective

[Latin indigent, Latin indigens, past participle of indigere to stand in need of, from Old Latin indu (from in- in) + Latin egere to be needy, to need.]

1.
Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of. [Obsolete] — Bacon
2.
Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous.
Indigent faint souls past corporal toil. — Shakespeare
Charity consists in relieving the indigent. — Addison