PI'ETIST, noun One of a sect professing great strictness and purity of life, despising learning, school theology and ecclesiastical polity, as also forms and ceremonies in religion, and giving themselves up to mystic theology. This sect sprung up among the protestants of Germany, in the latter part of the seventeenth century.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.