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One versed in patristics.

to the Fathers of the Christian church. The voluminous editor of Jerome anf of tons of patristic theology. I. Taylor.

That departnent of historical theology which treats of the lives and doctrines of the Fathers of the church.

A specialist in photometry.

A seeker; a pursuer. [Obs.] "Hot questrists after him." Shak.

One eminently studious of symmetry of parts. Sir H. Wotton.

loids, and gives them in doses fixed by certain rules. --Do`si*met"ric (#), a. --Do*sim"e*trist (#), n.

A small American finch (Spinus tristis); the thistle bird.

und of glycerin and margaric acid, but now known to be simply a mixture or combination of tristearin and teipalmitin.

and scene into an organic whole. The term is applied esp. to the later works of Wagner: "Tristan und Isolde," "Die Meistersinger," "Rheingold," "Walküre," "Siegfried," "Götterdämmerung," and "Parsifal."

One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore. [R.] Colridge.

brush plains of Western North America. -- Sage willow (Bot.), a species of willow (Salix tristis) forming a low bush with nearly sessile grayish green leaves.

ompound of glyceryl with three molecules of stearic acid, and hence is technically called tristearin, or glyceryl tristearate.

The system of doctrines and rites taught in the tantras. -- Tan"trist (#), n.

, Cincus horridulus. Thistle bird (Zoöl.), the American goldfinch, or yellow-bird (Spinus tristis); -- so called on account of its feeding on the seeds of thistles. See Illust. under Goldfinch. -- Thistle butterfly (Zoöl.), a handsomely colored American butterfly (Vanessa cardui) whose larva feeds upon thistles; -- ca…

Most of the species are hermaphrodite. Called also Trematoda, and Trematoidea. See Fluke, Tristoma, and Cercaria.