STUNDIST

‖Stun″dist (?), n. [[Russ. shtundist, prob. fr. G. stunde hour; — from their meetings for Bible reading.]] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a large sect of Russian dissenters founded, about 1860, in the village of Osnova, near Odessa, by a peasant, Onishchenko, who had apparently been influenced by a German sect settled near there. They zealously practice Bible reading and reject priestly dominion and all external rites of worship. — Stun″dism (#), n.