(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:08:25

Hes"y*chast (?), n. [Gr. hermit, fr. to be still or quiet, fr. still, calm.]

One of a mystical sect of the Greek Church in the fourteenth century; a quietist.

Brande & C.

 

© Webster 1913.

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