Hesychast

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hesychast \Hes"y*chast\, n. [Gr. ? hermit, fr. ? to be still or
     quiet, fr. ? still, calm.]
     One of a mystical sect of the Greek Church in the fourteenth
     century; a quietist. --Brande & C. Hetaera