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Persism (plural Persisms)

  1. A Persian idiom.

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Persism

  1. (archaic) Ancient Persian religion, especially as represented by the Magi.
    • 1911, Edward Vernon Arnold, Roman Stoicism:
      This system we shall call 'Persism', in order to free ourselves of the popular associations still connected with such terms as magism, Parseeism, and so forth; meaning by 'Persism' the teaching of Zarathustra as it affected the Greek and Latin world.

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