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Bernardine :: Bernardine (a.) Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks..

Ethicist :: Ethicist (n.) One who is versed in ethics, or has written on ethics..

Bernardine :: Bernardine (n.) A Cistercian monk.

Trass :: Trass (n.) A white to gray volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders; -- sometimes used as a cement. Hence, a coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water..

Myrrh :: Myrrh (n.) A gum resin, usually of a yellowish brown or amber color, of an aromatic odor, and a bitter, slightly pungent taste. It is valued for its odor and for its medicinal properties. It exudes from the bark of a shrub of Abyssinia and Arabia, the Balsamodendron Myrrha. The myrrh of the Bible is supposed to have been partly the gum above named, and partly the exudation of species of Cistus, or rockrose..

Rubricist :: Rubricist (n.) One skilled in, or tenaciously adhering to, the rubric or rubrics..

Tank :: Tank (n.) A large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids.

Etacist :: Etacist (n.) One who favors etacism.

Bac :: Bac (n.) A vat or cistern. See 1st Back.

Biblicist :: Biblicist (n.) One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures.

Exorcist :: Exorcist (n.) One who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism.

Physicist :: Physicist (n.) One versed in physics.

Exorcist :: Exorcist (n.) A conjurer who can raise spirits.

Empty :: Empty (v. t.) To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern..

Polemicist :: Polemicist (n.) A polemic.

Vitalist :: Vitalist (n.) A believer in the theory of vitalism; -- opposed to physicist.

Float :: Float (v. i.) The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler..

Cist :: Cist (n.) A box or chest. Specifically: (a) A bronze receptacle, round or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover, and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) A cinerary urn. See Illustration in Appendix..

Trappist :: Trappist (n.) A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Rance in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Extreme austerity characterizes their discipline. They were introduced permanently into the United States in 1848, and have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky..

Abacist :: Abacist (n.) One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.

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