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† ˈprotomist Obs. rare.
[For *protomyst, ad. med.L. prōtomyst-ēs or -a (Sidonius), a. eccl. Gr. πρωτοµύστ-ης a chief priest, a bishop, f. πρωτο- proto- + µύστης one initiated.]
A chief priest.
1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. App. 17 They have a Protomist or Bishop whom they highly reverence. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 152 They [Armenians] have two Patriarchs or Protomists. Ibid. 261 The Meccan Protomist sends a sanctified Camell by an adopted sonne, who is welcom'd to Spahawn by many thousand Mussulmen. |
