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n. [ Cf. F. botaniste. ] One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. charlatanisme. ] Charlatanry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. lutanista, fr. lutana lute. See Lute the instrument. ] A person that plays on the lute. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. See Mohammedanism and Islam. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. } See Mohammedan, Muslim, Mohammedanism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Mintanus, a Phrygian enthusiast of the second century, who claimed that the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, dwelt in him, and employed him as an instrument for purifying and guiding men in the Christian life. -- Mon`ta*nis"tic Mon`ta*nis"tic*al a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in paleobotany. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. platanista a sort of fish, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. plataniste. ] (Zool.) The soosoo. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Prytanes [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;. ] (Gr. Antiq.) A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrines, notions, or practice of Puritans. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. putanisme, fr. putain harlot. ] Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The evil and malicious disposition of Satan; a diabolical spirit. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The worship of Satan. [ PJC ]

n. 1. A very wicked person. [ R. ] Granger. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A worshiper of Satan. [ PJC ]

n. [ Ir. tanaiste, tanaise, second, the second person in rank, the presumptive or apparent heir to a prince. ] In Ireland, a lord or proprietor of a tract of land or of a castle, elected by a family, under the system of tanistry. [ 1913 Webster ]

This family [ the O'Hanlons ] were tanists of a large territory within the present county of Armagh. M. A. Lower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Tanist. ] In Ireland, a tenure of family lands by which the proprietor had only a life estate, to which he was admitted by election. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The primitive intention seems to have been that the inheritance should descend to the oldest or most worthy of the blood and name of the deceased. This was, in reality, giving it to the strongest; and the practice often occasioned bloody feuds in families, for which reason it was abolished under James I. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. ultramontanisme. ] The principles of those within the Roman Catholic Church who maintain extreme views favoring the pope's supremacy; -- so used by those living north of the Alps in reference to the Italians; -- rarely used in an opposite sense, as referring to the views of those living north of the Alps and opposed to the papal claims. Cf. Gallicanism. [ 1913 Webster ]