Pi'a-rist, n.
n. [From Lat. pius, pious.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a religious order which arose in the seventeenth century at Rome, and who bound themselves by a special vow to devote themselves to education. Brande.
n. [From Lat. pius, pious.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a religious order which arose in the seventeenth century at Rome, and who bound themselves by a special vow to devote themselves to education. Brande.