Sentence Examples

  • It is noteworthy that even the third Duma in its address to the throne, if it avoided the tabooed word " Constitution," avoided also all mention of autocracy.
  • Wine and myrtle were tabooed in the cult of this deity, and myths grew up to explain these features of the cult, of which an account may be read in W.
  • Head coverings also were gradually tabooed south of the 49th parallel.
  • The above explanation of the special degradation of the Nethinim, though they were connected with the Temple service, seems to be the only way of explaining the Talmudic reference to their tabooed position, and is an interesting example of the light that can be reflected on Biblical research by the Talmud.
  • In their uma-luli, or sacred (tabooed) enclosures, rites are performed resembling those of the Polynesian islanders.
 
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