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Piarist(dictionary)

auld (iou) and piarist (medicine)


auld (iou)



auld adjective, noun, & adverb. Scot. LME.
[Var. of OLD adjective repr. Old English (Anglian) ald.]
= OLD adjective, noun2, & adverb
auld alliance the political alliance between Scotland and France, beginning with the treaty of 1295 and repeatedly renewed until the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots. auld lang syne 'old long since', the days of long ago (esp. as the title and refrain of a song sung at parting etc.). Auld Reekie 'Old Smoky', Edinburgh. auld THIEF.

piarist (medicine)


piarist


One of a religious order who are the regular clerks of the Scuole Pie (religious schools), an institute of secondary Education, founded at Rome in the last years of the 16th century.

Origin: L. Pius pious.

Source: Websters Dictionary