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adj
Pertaining to the cossists and their methods; cossic.
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Usage: not-comparable
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noun
A practitioner of proto-algebra in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe.
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Usage: historical
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History
From Italian cossista, from the word cosa (“thing”), in reference to an unknown quantity to be determined + -ista. See rule of coss.
