Persism

Persism (plural Persisms)

1. A Persian idiom.

Persism

1. (archaic) Ancient Persian religion, especially as represented by the Magi.
   • 1911, Edward Vernon Arnold, Roman Stoicism:

     This system we shall call 'Persism', in order to free ourselves of the popular associations still connected with such terms as magism, Parseeism, and so forth; meaning by 'Persism' the teaching of Zarathustra as it affected the Greek and Latin world.

• “Persism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Simpers, impress, mispers, permiss, premiss, simpers