I hear Dr. Atkinson is over at Vrynatchka Banja with one of the orderlies who has had an operation; they thought she was going to have cancer in the chest, but it is a Cist.
"My Diary in Serbia: April 1, 1915-Nov. 1, 1915"
Monica M. Stanley
The Americans will add an "ist" or a "Cist" to every known trade or substantive under the sun, to describe the person or individual who practises or has any connection with the same: thus, a "paragraphist" is a man who writes a paragraph, and they carry it down to a "pipist," who uses a pipe- whether for smoking or musical purposes it does not matter-and "chawist," he who masticates tobacco-a remarkably dirty habit!
"Caught in a Trap"
John C. Hutcheson
Many of the graves explored by the writer in 1875, at Santa Barbara, resembled somewhat Cist graves, the bottom and sides of the pit being lined with large flat stones, but there were none directly over the skeletons.
"A further contribution to the study of the mortuary customs of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 87-204"
H. C. Yarrow