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.
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
- Zend, n. & adj.1700–
- zendaletto, n.1789–
- Zend-Avesta, n.1630–
- Zend-Avestaic, adj.1816
- Zend-Avestan, adj. & n.1871–
- Zend-Avestic, adj.1864–
- Zendic, n. & adj.1771–
- Zendician, n.a1833–66
- Zendicism, n.1697–
- Zendish, adj. & n.1802–1921
- Zendist, n.1877–1907
- zendo, n.1914–
- Zener, n.¹1934–
- Zener, n.²1949–
- Zengakuren, n.1950–
- Zen garden, n.1937–
- zenick, n.1801–1900
- zenitfer, n.1596–
- zenith, n. & adj.a1387–
- zenithal, adj.?1731–
- zenithal projection, n.1877–
1877–1907
An expert in or student of the Avestan language or the Zend-Avesta.
Stressed as ˈZendist.
1877
A generation of native Sanskritists and Zendists has sprung up.
Unitarian Rev. & Relig. Magazine May 498
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
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
An expert in or student of the Avestan language or the Zend-Avesta.
Originally published as part of the entry for Zend, n. & adj.
Zend, n. & adj. was revised in June 2018.
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