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Definition of Gists
1. gist [n] - See also: gist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gists
Literary usage of Gists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"Whether allied to ' cumba ' or not, I have my doubts. gists,— yourself, I believe,
among the rest 'Capella' (Anglice, ' Chapel,') is derived, I suspect, ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... has also been revived, and con- gists of an hereditary lord warden together
with four ver- derers, elected by freeholder» of the county. ..."
3. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... but instead of a marginal cup, as in that genus, the involucre con- gists of
the two valves lying flat in otó plane of the frond ; the veins are free. ..."
4. The Book of Chicagoans: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men of by John W. Leonard (1905)
"... 1878-82; In 1882 entered Pharmaceutical Assn., Chicago Veteran Drug- employ
of RT Wilson & Co., of New York, gists' Assn. Club: Woodlawn Park. ..."
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