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Cists vs Gists - What's the difference?

cists | gists |

As nouns the difference between cists and gists

is that cists is while gists is (rare).

cists

English

Noun

(head)
  • gists

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (rare)
  • * There's evidence that even our unconscious efficiently only stores the gists of memories.
  • * He made a listing of the gists of 1,000 consecutive episodes.
  • * The gists of the reports, however, their logic, their structural coherence, are molded by a concern to reconstruct the past.
  • * 1601 , (Philemon Holland)'s translation of (w, Pliny's Natural History) , 1st ed., book X, chapter XXIII “Of Swallowes, Ousles, or Merles, Thrushes, Stares or Sterlings, Turtles, and Stockdoves.”, p. 282:
  • ** These Quailes have their set gists', to wit, ordinarie resting and baiting places. [These quails have their set ' gists , to wit, ordinary resting and baiting places.]
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