cist

¹ American  

[sist] / sɪst /

noun

Classical Antiquity.

1. a box or chest, especially for sacred utensils.

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cist ² American  

[sist, kist] / sɪst, kɪst /

Also kist

noun

1. a prehistoric sepulchral tomb or casket.

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cist ¹ British  

/ sɪst /

noun

1. a wooden box for holding ritual objects used in ancient Rome and Greece

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cist ² British  

/ sɪst /

noun

1. archaeol a box-shaped burial chamber made from stone slabs or a hollowed tree trunk

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Other Word Forms

• cisted
  adjective
• cistic
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of cist¹

1795–1805; < Latin cista < Greek kístē chest

Origin of cist²

1795–1805; < Welsh < Latin cista. See cist ¹

Example Sentences

But the new commander would not, any more than his predecessor, fall in with Halleck's schemes, and what Cist contemptuously describes as "Halleck's brilliant paper campaign into East Tennessee" did not take place.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume II by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)

Cist, sist, n. a tomb consisting of a stone chest covered with stone slabs.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

The Project Gutenberg Etext The Army of the Cumberland, Henry M. Cist ********This file should be named 8cmbr10.txt or 8cmbr10.zip*********

From The Army of the Cumberland by Cist, Henry Martyn

Cist troi homme signifïent trois ordenes ki sunt en sainte eglise.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

Storage Cist in Canyon De Chelly A little below this site there are some well-executed pictographs, and on some rocks immediately to the right some crude work of the Navaho of the same sort.

From The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Mindeleff, Cosmos