zendisthttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zendist_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_useZendist, n.
Revised 2018

† Zendistnoun

Obsolete.
  1. 1877–1907
    An expert in or student of the Avestan language or the Zend-Avesta.
    Stressed as ˈZendist.
    1. 1877
      A generation of native Sanskritists and Zendists has sprung up.
      Unitarian Rev. & Relig. Magazine May 498
    2. 1890
      It is a very hard verse, and part of it is much fought over by Zendists.
      E. B. Cowell, Letter 15 March in G. Cowell, Life & Letters (1904) vii. 313
    3. 1907
      It has been an exceedingly laborious task, and one from which all European Zendists since Spiegel seem for the most part to have shrunk.
      Monist vol. 17 320

Originally published as part of the entry for Zend, n. & adj.

Zend, n. & adj. was revised in June 2018.