Zendist, n.

zendist
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Revised 2018

# † Zendistnoun

## Factsheet

### What does the noun Zendist mean?

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun Zendist. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

This word is now obsolete. It is last recorded around the 1900s.

### Where does the noun Zendist come from?

Earliest known use

1870s

The earliest known use of the noun Zendist is in the 1870s.

OED's earliest evidence for Zendist is from 1877, in Unitarian Rev. & Relig. Magazine.

### Nearby entries

1. Zend, n. & adj. 1700–
2. zendaletto, n. 1789–
3. Zend-Avesta, n. 1630–
4. Zend-Avestaic, adj. 1816
5. Zend-Avestan, adj. & n. 1871–
6. Zend-Avestic, adj. 1864–
7. Zendic, n. & adj. 1771–
8. Zendician, n. a1833–66
9. Zendicism, n. 1697–
10. Zendish, adj. & n. 1802–1921
11. Zendist, n.1877–1907
12. zendo, n. 1914–
13. Zener, n.¹ 1934–
14. Zener, n.² 1949–
15. Zengakuren, n. 1950–
16. Zen garden, n. 1937–
17. zenick, n. 1801–1900
18. zenitfer, n. 1596–
19. zenith, n. & adj. a1387–
20. zenithal, adj.?1731–
21. zenithal projection, n. 1877–

## Meaning & use

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
   1. Zendist 1877–1907
      An expert in or student of the Avestan language or the Zend-Avesta.
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Originally published as part of the entry for Zend, n. & adj.

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