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noun
  1. The heir apparent to a Celtic clan, who will succeed the chief
  • 1922: 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. " James Joyce, Ulysses
Etymology: Irish tínaiste, literally "second-in-command".

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