suist

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

suist (plural suists)

1. (obsolete) A selfish person

   Synonym: selfist

   • 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English:

     […] rather than alter his pace, or path (that Conscience or Reason boundeth him in) he will bee poor, undone; any thing but the Ratio formalis, essentiall of a Suist, or selfe-polititian, that is changeable.

• suicism

• “suist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Situs, Suits, Tsuis, situs, suits

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• Rhymes: -œy̯st

suist

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