'Mechitarist' definitions:

Definition of 'Mechitarist'

From: GCIDE
  • Mechitarist \Mech"i*tar*ist\, n. [From Mechitar, an Armenian., who founded the congregation in the early part of the eighteenth century.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a religious congregation of the Roman Catholic Church devoted to the improvement of Armenians. [1913 Webster]