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Pi•a•rist
(pī′ər ist),USA pronunciation n.
- Education, Religiona member of a Roman Catholic teaching congregation founded in Rome in 1597.
- Neo-Latin piār(um), in phrase (patrēs scholārum) piārum (fathers) of religious (schools) + -ist
- 1835–45