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Mechitarist

Mech′i-tar-ist

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Noun.
[From
Mechitar
, an Armenian., who founded the congregation in the early part of the eighteenth century.]
(Eccl. Hist.)
One of a religious congregation of the
Roman Catholic Church
devoted to the improvement of Armenians.

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Mechitarist

Mechitarist

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Mechitarist (plural Mechitarists)

  1. (historical) One of a congregation of Benedictine monks of the Armenian Catholic Church established in 1717 by Abbot Mekhitar of Sebaste in the island of San Lazzaro, south of Venice.

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