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Definition of Tabued
1. tabu [v] - See also: tabu
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tabued
Literary usage of Tabued
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, & Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans, Edith R. Hall (1843)
"This morning the circumstance ol the vessel being 'tabued,' was fully ascertained
to be enforced with a view to exclude the natives from a share in the ..."
2. Journal of Voyages and Travels by the Rev. Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet by Daniel Tyerman, George Bennet, London Missionary Society (1832)
"... in the name of his Britannic Majesty—Anecdotes of Cruelty—Conversation with
the King—tabued ... tabued ..."
3. Journal of Voyages and Travels by the Rev. Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet by Daniel Tyerman, George Bennet, London Missionary Society (1832)
"... Supper—tabued Trees. Sept. 26. AFTER bringing some of our packages on shore,
Captain Stavers, having learned that there was better anchorage in Wilks's ..."
4. Sociology Based Upon Ethnography by Charles Jean Marie Letourneau, Henry Merivale Trollope (1893)
"48J leaves were tabued for fishing purposes when the fish ... In New Zealand an
iron pot of European origin was declared tabued, and therefore all cooked ..."
5. The Folk-lore Record by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1881)
"His name was Ching, and that it might be for ever held sacred he commanded that
the syllable ching should be tabued. Hence the change referred to. ..."
6. Hawaiian Antiquities (Moolelo Hawaii) by David Malo (1903)
"The articles also that were tabued by one god were different from those ...
The god of one fisherman tabued everything that was black, and that fisherman ..."
7. Curiosities of Savage Life by James Greenwood (1865)
""When the fish of a. certain part are tabued, a small pole is fixed in the ...
A cocoa-nut leaf is tied to the stem of the tree when the fruit is tabued. ..."
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