æcist (esist)

[ At Per in thus, Herakles was revered as ækist or founder. B. V. Head , Hist or i a Numorum, p. 232. œcium (ē'si-um), n.; pl. æcia (-a). [NL., οἰκίον , a house, οἶκος , a house.] In zoöl ., the household common to the several individuals of an aggregate or colonial organism; a zoecium. See syncytium and zoæcium .