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Definition of Starets
1. Noun. A religious adviser (not necessarily a priest) in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Specialized synonyms: Grigori Efimovich Rasputin, Rasputin
Definition of Starets
1. a spiritual adviser in the Eastern Orthodox Church [n STARTSY]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Starets
Literary usage of Starets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Feodor Dostoieffsky: A Great Russian Realist by John Arthur Thomas Lloyd (1914)
"Feodor and his son Mitia upbraid each other in the presence of the starets, the
soul of the Russian monastery. Father and son love the same woman, ..."
2. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"Rasputin, it was said, favored a separate peace with Germany, and the Grand Duke,
when he heard of it, "declared that if the starets should fall into his ..."
3. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... starets or Coroners, who besides the tryall of selfe Murders, are to attach
... starets, that is Aldermen, ..."
4. Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century: Comprising, the Treatise "Of by Edward Augustus Bond, Giles Fletcher, Jerome Horsey (1856)
"... starets or coroners, who, besides the triall of selfe murders, are to attach
fellons: and the ..."
5. With Fire and Sword: An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898)
"... for we have never carried on war with either, but with our greatest enemy,
who is now red with Cossack blood, who at starets bathed himself in it, ..."
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