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Definition of Tabuing
1. tabu [v] - See also: tabu
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tabuing
Literary usage of Tabuing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Social Origins by Andrew Lang, James Jasper Atkinson (1903)
"l This origin of Totemism (namely, in animism, a man of influence tabuing, and
bequeathing to his descendants for ever, the animal or plant that is to be ..."
2. Social Origins by Andrew Lang, James Jasper Atkinson (1903)
"1 This origin of Totemism (namely, in animism, a man of influence tabuing, and
bequeathing to his descendants for ever, the animal or plant that is to be ..."
3. The Folk-lore Record by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1881)
"Many natives will be found quite unable to give any satisfactory reason for
tabuing this word, but occasionally one will be found who can give the true one, ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1907)
"eating flesh and going near women [compare the Polynesian usage of tabuing ships
to women, Waitz, ..."
5. The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States by John Codman Hurd (1858)
"... Britain disallowed the act and sent a circular to all the other governors,
pro- ' tabuing them from assenting to any similar act." 1 Story's Comm. ..."
6. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1918)
"Had the extremists succeeded in their policy of tabuing military service, it is
very doubtful if the victory of Christianity in the next century would have ..."
7. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature by John McClintock, James Strong (1883)
"... formed of layers of cloth, plastered with lime on the inside. The shape is
that of a tabuing the Cartonaje or Mummy-caae. (From the Monumente. ..."
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