Definition of Tohunga

1. a Maori priest [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tohunga

toght
togo
togrind
togrog
togrogs
togs
togue
togues
togæ
toheroa
toheroas
tohew
toho
tohos
tohubohu
tohunga (current term)
tohungas
toil
toil and moil
toile
toiled
toiler
toilers
toiles
toilet
toilet-paper
toilet-papered
toilet-papering
toilet-papers
toilet-roll

Literary usage of Tohunga

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

1. Old New Zealand: A Tale of the Good Old Times ; and a History of the War in by Frederick Edward Maning (1900)
"THEN came the tapu tohunga, or priest's tapu, a quite different kind or form of ... These tohunga presided over all those ceremonies and customs which had ..."

2. The Maori Race by Edward Tregear (1904)
"THE tohunga AND WITCHCRAFT. LTHOUGH we have heretofore spoken of the ariki as the priest- chief we have said little concerning the ordinary priest or wizard ..."

3. Old New Zealand, and A history of the war in the North against the chief by Frederick Edward Maning (1876)
"HEN came the tapu tohunga, or priest's tapu, a quite different kind or form of ... These tohunga presided over all those ceremonies and customs which had ..."

4. Old New Zealand: Being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old by Frederick Edward Maning (1863)
"THEN came the tapu tohunga, or priest's tapu, a quite different kind or form of ... These tohunga presided over all those ceremonies and customs which had ..."

5. Parliamentary Debates (1898)
"Mr. Jennings sified with that of the Maori tohunga who, quite recently, in the extreme north of Auckland", immersed a Maori woman of hi* tribe who was in ..."

6. The Journal of the Polynesian Society by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) (1918)
"In those days the seat or resting place of a tohunga would not be occupied by another person without some very special reason; or the tohunga would cause ..."

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