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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Tan·ist n.  In Ireland, a lord or proprietor of a tract of land or of a castle, elected by a family, under the system of tanistry.
    This family [the O'Hanlons] were tanists of a large territory within the present county of Armagh.   --M. A. Lower.
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