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totemite

[toh-tuh-mahyt]

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Word History and Origins

Origin of totemite1

First recorded in 1900–05; totem + -ite 1
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Example Sentences

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Then the master of the ceremonies rubs the stomach of each totemite with the little stones, and says, "You have eaten much food."

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If we wish to express the matter comprehensively, and at the same time to avoid language suggestive of a more advanced mysticism, we may perhaps describe the totem as, from this point of view, the totemite's "luck."

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Again, almost invariably the totemite shows some respect towards his totem, refraining, for instance, from slaying and eating the totem-animal, unless it be in some specially solemn and sacramental way.

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