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▪ I. zeme, zemi|ˈziːmɪ|
[a. Carib cemi.]
An idol, or a tutelary spirit represented thereby, worshipped by the aborigines of the West Indian islands. Hence ˈzemeism (see quot. 1902); zemeˈistic a.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage ix. xiv. 743 These Images they made of Gossampine cotton hard stopped, sitting, like the pictures of the Deuill, which they called Zemes. Ibid., Euery King hath his particular Zemes, which he honoureth. 1663J. Owen Vind. Animadv. Fiat Lux xxi. 487 In the Indies, the Catholick Spaniards took away the Zemes or Images of their Idols. 1902Fewkes in Science 18 July 104 The whole social and religious organization was knit together by a form of totemism or tutelary clan ancients worship which I shall call Zemeism. 1903–4Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol. 54 Zemiism. Ibid. 59 Her body was painted with figures and..flowers, evidently zemeistic or totemistic.
▪ II. zeme
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