zebedisthttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zebedist_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_useZebedist, n.
Revised 2018

† Zebedistnoun

Obsolete.
  1. 1574
    A person who seeks advancement or high office.
    Apparently an isolated use.
    With allusion to Matthew 20:20–2, in which the mother of the sons of Zebedee (the apostles James and John), asks Jesus to grant them the favour of sitting at his right and left hand in God's kingdom, a request which meets with a rebuke from Jesus and indignation on the part of the other apostles.
    1. 1574
      Like a pore blinde zebediste to aske he knoweth not what with such a sturre to make suite for the retaining off his place, to sitt on the righthande, or lefte hand off Iesus Christe in this worlde.
      translation of Life 70. Archbishopp Canterbury To Reader sig. Eiij

Zebedist, n. was revised in June 2018.

Zebedist, n. was last modified in March 2025.