"tanist" meaning in English

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          "word": "tanistry"
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          "ref": "1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:",
          "text": "Lover, for her love he prowled with colonel Richard Burke, tanist of his sept, under the walls of Clerkenwell and, crouching, saw a flame of vengeance hurl them upward in the fog.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Mark Wycliffe Samuel, Kate Hamlyn, Blarney Castle: Its History, Development, and Purpose, Cork University Press, page 36:",
          "text": "In 1570 Dermot died at 'his own house' of Castle Inch. His brother and tanist, Cormac Mac Teige (fourteenth Lord), succeeded him (Ó Murchadha, p. 16).",
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          "ref": "2014, Ulla Secher, Aboriginal Customary Law: A Source of Common Law Title to Land, Bloomsbury Publishing (Hart Publishing), page 120:",
          "text": "As a result of the universal introduction of the English common law, therefore, the original tanist acquired a common law title to the disputed land 'without grant or confirmation of the conqueror'.",
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        "The heir presumptive to the chieftainship or kingship of a Celtic clan in ancient Ireland, Scotland or Mann."
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          "heir presumptive",
          "heir presumptive"
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          "chieftainship",
          "chieftainship"
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          "kingship",
          "kingship"
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          "Celtic",
          "Celtic"
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        [
          "clan",
          "clan"
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          "Ireland",
          "Ireland"
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          "Scotland",
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        "(historical) The heir presumptive to the chieftainship or kingship of a Celtic clan in ancient Ireland, Scotland or Mann."
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          "sense": "heir presumptive to the chieftainship or kingship of a Celtic clan in ancient Ireland, Scotland or Mann",
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          "word": "tanista"
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      "ipa": "/ˈtænɪst/"
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ænɪst"
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  "word": "tanist"
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          "ref": "1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:",
          "text": "Lover, for her love he prowled with colonel Richard Burke, tanist of his sept, under the walls of Clerkenwell and, crouching, saw a flame of vengeance hurl them upward in the fog.",
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        },
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          "Scotland",
          "Scotland"
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          "Mann",
          "Mann"
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      ],
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "heir presumptive to the chieftainship or kingship of a Celtic clan in ancient Ireland, Scotland or Mann",
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      "word": "tanista"
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