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Definition & Synonyms
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• Taboo
- (a.) Set apart or sacred by religious custom among certain races of Polynesia, New Zealand, etc., and forbidden to certain persons or uses; hence, prohibited under severe penalties; interdicted; as, food, places, words, customs, etc., may be taboo.
- (v. t.) To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals.
- (n.) A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction.
Synonyms:
Forbidden, Out, Prohibited, Proscribed, Tabu,
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• Tabooing
- (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Taboo
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Suspension, Regards, Conceptions, Institute, Meaning, Power, Abducted, Insanity, Broom Rape, Revolution, Calligrapher, Calligraphist, Power, Buffer, Misappropriation, Ain, Caller, Power, Floor, Mediocre, Turbin, Wheat, Fast Colour, Prestige, Alias, Guitar, Power, Bungal, Canceled, Chesterfield, Power, Revealed, Diverse, |
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A, A1, Aquiline, Aardvark, Aardwolf, Abaca, Aback, Abacus, Abaft, Abalone, Abandon, Abandoned, Abandonment, Abase, Abasement, Abash, Abashed, Abashment, Abate, Abatement, Abater, Abattoir, Abb, Abbacy, Abbess, Abbey, Abbot, Abbreviate, Abbreviation, Abdicate, Abdication, Abdomen, |
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