Results for taboo

Definitions of taboo:

part of speech: verb transitive

To forbid approach to, or use of.

part of speech: past tense, past participle

Tabooed.

part of speech: noun

A religious system or practice, in use among certain savage races, by which certain acts and things were made sacred and forbidden; ban.

part of speech: present participle

Tabooing.

part of speech: verb

To forbid the use of; to render inviolable; to forbid approach or use.

part of speech: adjective

Set apart or sacred by religious custom; prohibited by social custom.

Usage examples for taboo:

• Which she once belongs to Whistlin' Dan Barry an' therefore she's got the taboo mark on her for any other man. "The Untamed", Max Brand

• For Neeootaboo taboo or Boscawen's Island, where Captain Wallis's ships left it, and from whence Poulaho received it, lies some degrees to the north- west of Tongataboo. "A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16", Robert Kerr

• Thus our estimate of the value of such an institution as " taboo goes up, and our knowledge of it is increased, when we recognise in it one of the early manifestations of the sense of moral obligation on its negative side. "Evolution", Frank B. Jevons

• Here at Lannercost he had stipulated that the subject be absolutely taboo an understanding however, not always strictly carried out, the greatest offender being small Fred. "The Triumph of Hilary Blachland", Bertram Mitford