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

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

General Henry M. Cist, in his "Army of the Cumberland" says, "There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga."

From Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Bolton, Sarah K.

This formulary was published by Styner & Cist of Philadelphia in 1778, which means that it was not actually printed until sometime after June 18, when the British evacuated Philadelphia.

From Drug Supplies in the American Revolution by Griffenhagen, George B.

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)