suist

English

Etymology

Latin suus (“belonging to himself or oneself”).

Noun

suist (plural suists)

  1. One who seeks for things which gratify merely himself; a selfish person; a selfist.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for suist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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Verb

suist

  1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of suizen
  2. (archaic) plural imperative of suizen
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