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piarist

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Pi⋅a⋅rist

  [pahy-er-ist]
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–noun
a member of a Roman Catholic teaching congregation founded in Rome in 1597.
Origin:
1835–45; < NL piār(um), in phrase (patrēs scholārum) piārum (fathers) of religious (schools) + -ist
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