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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_183093" /> == | |||
<p> </p> <p> solemn prohibition or interdict among the Polynesians under which a particular person or thing is pronounced inviolable, and so sacred, the violation of which entails malediction at the hands of the supernatural powers. </p> | <p> (1): (a.) Set apart or sacred by religious custom among certain races of Polynesia, New Zealand, etc., and forbidden to certain persons or uses; hence, prohibited under severe penalties; interdicted; as, food, places, words, customs, etc., may be taboo. </p> <p> (2): (n.) A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, - an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction. </p> <p> (3): (v. t.) To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals. </p> | ||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_80447" /> == | |||
<p> solemn prohibition or interdict among the Polynesians under which a particular person or thing is pronounced inviolable, and so sacred, the violation of which entails malediction at the hands of the supernatural powers. </p> | |||
==References == | ==References == | ||
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<ref name="term_183093"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/taboo Taboo from Webster's Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_80447"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/taboo Taboo from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | <ref name="term_80447"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/taboo Taboo from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 14:10, 12 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (a.) Set apart or sacred by religious custom among certain races of Polynesia, New Zealand, etc., and forbidden to certain persons or uses; hence, prohibited under severe penalties; interdicted; as, food, places, words, customs, etc., may be taboo.
(2): (n.) A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, - an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction.
(3): (v. t.) To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
solemn prohibition or interdict among the Polynesians under which a particular person or thing is pronounced inviolable, and so sacred, the violation of which entails malediction at the hands of the supernatural powers.
