Definition of Tarantists

1. tarantist [n] - See also: tarantist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tarantists

taranabant
taranakite
tarand
tarands
taranis
tarantas
tarantases
tarantella
tarantellas
tarantelle
tarantism
tarantisms
tarantist
tarantists (current term)
tarantula
tarantulae
tarantulas
tarantulated
tarapacaite
taras
tarasque
tarasques
taratantara
taraxacin
taraxacum
tarbabies
tarbaby
tarbagan

Literary usage of Tarantists

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"The different forms which the disease assumed were cured by means of different airs, to which the tarantists —the name by which the patients were known ..."

2. The White Slavery: A Study of the Present Trades Union System by Wiley Britton (1909)
"... the St. Vitus dancers, or the tarantists; that it is largely an organization of violent, vicious and feeble-minded, controlled and manipulated by bad ..."

3. The White Slavery: A Study of the Present Trades Union System by Wiley Britton (1909)
"While the symptoms and manifestations of those afflicted with the malady, were almost identical with those of the St. Vitus dancers, the tarantists believed ..."

4. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1889)
"The different forms which the disease assumed were cured by means of different airs, to which the tarantists—the name by which the patients were known—were ..."

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