noun. A wicker receptacle used in ancient Rome for carrying sacred utensils in a procession.

noun. A stone-lined grave, especially a tomb consisting of a pit lined with stones and often having a lid of stone or wood.

noun. See cyst.

noun. A recess in a cliff-house, walled off from the main room.

noun. A place of interment belonging to an early or prehistoric period, and consisting of a stone chest formed in general of two parallel rows of stones fixed on their edges, and covered by similar flat stones, or sometimes in rocky districts hewn in the rock itself.

noun. A case; a chest; a basket.

noun. A box, usually of bronze, used in the toilet. Several beautiful cists ornamented with elaborate designs, both in relief and incised, have been found in the parts of Italy anciently called Magna Græcia and Ethuria.

noun. A box or chest. Specifically: (a) A bronze receptacle, round or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover, and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) A cinerary urn. See Illustration in Appendix.

noun. See Cyst.

noun. A small receptacle for sacred utensils carried in festivals in ancient Greece

noun. A crypt cut into rock, chalk, or a tree trunk, especially a coffin formed by placing stone slabs on edge and topping them with a horizontal slab or slabs.

"So "cist" may seem to imply acting against something when one is actually tolerant and peaceable while having a personal belief system."

cist-urn  

Liszt  assist  coexist  consist  cyst  

Colum  Pelli  Sw.  bunurile  cognovi  

barrow  beehive tomb  bone house  box grave  burial  

cyst