Definition of Angakoks

1. Noun. (plural of angakok) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Angakoks

1. angakok [n] - See also: angakok

Lexicographical Neighbors of Angakoks

aneutronic
aneutronic fuels
anew
anfractuose
anfractuosities
anfractuosity
anfractuous
anfractuousness
anfracture
anfractures
ang moh
anga
angakkuq
angakkuqs
angakok
angakoks (current term)
angaria
angarias
angariation
angariations
angaries
angary
angeiology
angeiotomy
angekkok
angekkoks
angekok
angekoks
angekut
angekuts

Literary usage of Angakoks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The World's Inhabitants, Or, Mankind, Animals, and Plants: Being a Popular by George Thomas Bettany (1888)
"Witchcraft was also believed in, and though proscribed by the angakoks, was always handed ... The angakoks, male or female, began preparation in childhood, ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1876)
"It seems to have been the view of the angakoks that it was perfectly fair to hoist ... As to the priests or angakoks themselves, they were more formidable, ..."

3. Die Culturländer des alten America by Adolf Bastian (1878)
"... was transformed into the Christian devil, and those spirits over whom he ruled, and whom he assigned to the angakoks äs tlieir guardian spirits, ..."

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