Definition of Totemist

1. Noun. A person who belongs to a clan or tribe having a totem.

Generic synonyms: Individual, Mortal, Person, Somebody, Someone, Soul
Group relationships: Totem

Definition of Totemist

1. n. One belonging to a clan or tribe having a totem.

Definition of Totemist

1. Noun. One belonging to a clan or tribe having a totem. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Totemist

1. a specialist in totemism [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Totemist

tote boards
tote mism
tote up
toteable
totear
toted
toteless
totem
totem pole
totem poles
totem tennis
totemic
totemically
totemism
totemisms
totemist (current term)
totemistic
totemists
totemite
totemites
totems
toter
toters
totes
tother
totient
totients
toting
totipalmate
totipalmi

Literary usage of Totemist

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

1. The Women of Turkey and Their Folk-lore by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett, John S. Stuart-Glennie (1891)
"... while Ceremonies of a totemist character seemed to be justifiably regarded as survivals of the distinctive ceremonies of the Matriarchal Marriage. ..."

2. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"... and the idea of connection involving the duties of the totemist to his totem, and of the totem to the totemist ? No " DISEASE OF LANGUAGE. ..."

3. Social Origins by Andrew Lang, James Jasper Atkinson (1903)
"... duties of the totemist to his totem, and of the totem to the totemist ? NO ' DISEASE OF LANGUAGE ' The names, I repeat, requiring and receiving mythical ..."

4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1919)
"The totemist considers the animal his superior: civilized man thinks of it as vastly his inferior. Primitive man must distinguish between the animal and ..."

5. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"I suggest, therefore, that though I, being a totemist, am theoretically at liberty to kill my father's totem-animal, or my wife's, still, as a matter of ..."

6. Essays and Studies Presented to William Ridgeway ... on His Sixtieth by Edmund Crosby Quiggin (1914)
"... but the student of the psychology of religion will correlate the consciousness of the totemist with that of his more advanced a peculiar tonsure to copy ..."

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