单词 | piarist |
释义 | Piaristn. Roman Catholic Church. A member of the Order of the Pious Schools, a religious order devoted to providing free education for children.The order was founded in Rome in the early 17th cent. by St Joseph Calasanctius (1556–1648). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > lay associations > Piarist > [noun] Piarist1799 1799 H. L. tr. J. M. Miller Sigevart I. 40 He may go, said they, to the city, for a few years to study under the Piarists, to whom we will recommend him. 1802 J. Aikin et al. Gen. Biogr. III. 358/2 He was able to teach them [sc. the sciences] not only in the school of the Piarists, but at the seminary of Raab. 1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 661 The Piarists appear to have never entered..any country outside the limits of Europe. 1950 Walla Walla (Washington) Union-Bull. 24 Sept. 3/1 Only four religious orders will be permitted to function [in Hungary]—the Franciscans, Dominicans, Piarists and an order of nuns. 1998 R. Butterwick Poland's Last King & Eng. Culture iii. 70 Konarski took as his model the Piarists' own Collegium Nazarenum in Rome, where he had studied in 1725–9. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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