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Definition of cist in English: cist(South African, Scottish kist) noun kɪstsɪstsɪst 1Archaeology
An ancient coffin or burial chamber made from stone or a hollowed tree. Example sentencesExamples - He pointed at long flat slabs resting on stone kists.
- Excavations revealed a sarsen stone cist containing a cremation burial accompanied by a bronze awl and a jet pendant.
- They were located at one end of a stone burial cist, which was covered with a cairn.
- The cremation graves at Vronda all have multiple burials within the same cist grave.
- Some bodies were laid out straight, some crouched; some in stone cists, others in hollows in the rubble.
2A box used in ancient Greece for sacred utensils.
Origin Early 19th century: from Latin cista, from Greek kistē 'box'; sense 1 via Welsh. Rhymes assist, coexist, consist, cyst, desist, enlist, exist, gist, grist, hist, insist, list, Liszt, mist, persist, resist, schist, subsist, tryst, twist, whist, wist, wrist Definition of cist in US English: cist(Scottish, South African kist) nounsɪstsist 1Archaeology
An ancient coffin or burial chamber made from stone or a hollowed tree. Example sentencesExamples - They were located at one end of a stone burial cist, which was covered with a cairn.
- Some bodies were laid out straight, some crouched; some in stone cists, others in hollows in the rubble.
- The cremation graves at Vronda all have multiple burials within the same cist grave.
- Excavations revealed a sarsen stone cist containing a cremation burial accompanied by a bronze awl and a jet pendant.
- He pointed at long flat slabs resting on stone kists.
2A box used in ancient Greece for sacred utensils.
Origin Early 19th century: from Latin cista, from Greek kistē ‘box’; sense 1 via Welsh. |