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Piarist|ˈpaɪərɪst|
[f. mod.L. title patres scholarum piarum fathers of the religious schools, the Piarists being the regular clerks of the Scuole Pie or religious schools.]
A member of a Roman Catholic secular order, founded at Rome by St. Joseph Calasanctius shortly before 1600. They devote themselves to the gratuitous instruction of the young.
1842Brande Dict. Sc., etc., Piarists (Patres Scholarum Piarum). They still continue to superintend a great number of schools in Hungary, Poland, Bohemia, etc. 1885Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 661 The Piarists appear to have never entered..any country outside the limits of Europe. 1901N.Y. Even. Post 7 May 4/3 One of the large religious communities in Hungary, the Piarists, has just refused to admit Jesuit teachers within any of its colleges. |