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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(R. C. Ch.)

A member of

The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle

, founded in 1858 by the

Rev. I. T. Hecker

New York

. The majority of the members were formerly Protestants.

Paulist ‎(plural Paulists)

Any member of various religious orders associated with either of the saints Paul of Thebes and Paul of Tarsus.