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Definition of: Piarist
(pī′ə·rist) noun
One of a Roman Catholic monastic order the members of which are known as Regular Clerks of the Scuole Pie, an institute of instruction, founded in Rome about 1600. [<NL (patres scholarum) piarum (fathers of the) religious (schools) <L pius dutiful, pious]
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