2. Verb. (past of taboo) ¹
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Definition of Tabooed
1. taboo [v] - See also: taboo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tabooed
Literary usage of Tabooed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1906)
"In Nukahiva, for instance, a man who has killed the highest person, or one of
the highest, among the enemy, is tabooed for ten days, during which he is not ..."
2. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edvard Westermarck (1908)
"Sometimes the name is tabooed on certain occasions only or in ordinary conversation,
sometimes it is not to be pronounced at all. name in the afternoon and ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"on the places or things tabooed. The penalty for the violation of a taboo was
... The law which separated tabooed persons and things from contact with food ..."
4. An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion by Frank Byron Jevons (1908)
"But at the outset no reason is given : the things are simply offensive to the
community and are tabooed as such. We, looking back at that stage in the ..."
5. An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion by Frank Byron Jevons (1908)
"But at the outset no reason is given: the things are simply offensive to the
community and are tabooed as such. We, looking back at that stage in the ..."
6. Rest Days: A Study in Early Law and Morality by Hutton Webster (1916)
"The custom of keeping tabooed days after a death may be properly ... But where
tabooed days are observed for the same reasons by unrelated peoples, who, ..."
7. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1908)
"In many cases it is considered offensive to a supernatural being merely to mention
his name. Sometimes the name is tabooed on certain ..."
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