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From Mechitar + -ist, named after Mechitar of Sebaste, the founder.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mechitarist
Today it means: A member of a congregation of Benedictine monks of the Armenian Catholic Church established in 1717 by Abbot Mekhitar of Sebaste on the island of San Lazzaro, south of Venice. Full definition →