Definition of piarist Piarist
Pi•a•rist
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What does piarist mean?
Wiktionary 
- piarist (Noun)
A member of the Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools, a Catholic educational order founded in the sixteenth century.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- piarist (n.)
One of a religious order who are the regular clerks of the Scuole Pie (religious schools), an institute of secondary education, founded at Rome in the last years of the 16th century.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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piarist
pī′ar-ist, n. one of a religious congregation for the education of the poor, founded in Rome in 1617 by Joseph Calasanza. [L. pius, pious.]
