nonce-wd. [f. as prec. + -ISM.] The art or practice of bell-ringing. So Tintinnabulist, a professional bell-ringer.
1826. New Monthly Mag., XVI. 474. An Armenian mass, with all its ‘tintinabulism,’ and nasal singing, and ‘incondite music.’
1830. Fraser’s Mag., II. 450. An army of red-coated tintinnabulists are called for to remind the greasy citizens of the time.
