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Khlist|xlɪst|
Also Chlist, Khlyst. Pl. Chlists, Khlisti, Khlysts, Khlysty.
[Russ., lit. a whip.]
A member of a sect of ascetic Russian Christians, formed in the 17th century, who believed that Christ could be reincarnated in human beings through their suffering.
1856R. Farie tr. A. von Haxthausen's Russ. Empire I. viii. 254 On Easter night the Skoptzi and Khlisti all assemble for a great solemnity, the worship of the Mother of God. 1874J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects 250/1 Khlisti, a name signifying ‘Flagellants’ given to a Russian sect..formed about 1645 by a deserter from the army named Daniel Philipitch. 1920A. Paget tr. Nekludoff's Diplomatic Reminisc. vii. 71 Rasputin was in fact a Khlyst, i.e. half ‘Shaker’, half Flagellant—a strange sect which from time to time rises in Russia from the common depths to the upper classes of society. 1929A. Huxley Do what you Will 152 None but heretics have preached it [sc. humility]. The Russian Khlyst, for example. Ibid. 153 Rasputin practised what he preached, and sinned—most conspicuously, as was the custom of the Khlysty, in relation to the seventh commandment. 1967D. T. Kauffman Dict. Relig. Terms. 274 Khlysts, Chlists, or Klysty flagellants, Russian ascetics originating in the seventeenth century. |