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MARIST

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Mar⋅ist

  [mair-ist, mar-]
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–noun Roman Catholic Church.
a member of a religious order founded in Lyons, France, in 1816 for missionary and educational work in the name of the Virgin Mary.
Origin:
1875–80; < F Mariste. See Mary, -ist
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Mar·ist   (mâr'ĭst, mār'-)   
n.  

  1. A member of the Society of Mary, a congregation of Roman Catholic missionary priests founded in 1824.

  2. A member of the Little Brothers of Mary, a Roman Catholic teaching congregation founded in 1817.


[French Mariste, from Marie, the Virgin Mary, from Late Latin Maria; see marionette.]
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