fetishn.

Brit.

/ˈfɛtɪʃ/,

/ˈfiːtɪʃ/, U.S.

/ˈfɛdɪʃ/

Forms: 1600s–1700s fetisso, (1700s feitisso), (1600s fateish, 1800s feteesh, fetisch, fetishe, fetiss), 1700s fittish, 1700s– fetich(e, fetish.

Etymology: < French fétiche, < Portuguese feitiço noun, charm, sorcery (from which the earliest English forms are directly adopted) = Spanish hechizo in same sense; a substantive use of feitiço adjective ‘made by art, artificial, skilfully contrived’ = Spanish hechizo , Italian fattizio , Old French faitis (see featous adj.) < Latin factīcius factitious adj.

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a. Originally: any of the objects used by the indigenous peoples of the Guinea coast and the neighbouring regions as amulets or means of enchantment, or regarded by them with superstitious dread.

b. By writers on anthropology (following C. de Brosses, Le Culte des Dieux Fétiches, 1760) used in wider sense: an inanimate object worshipped by preliterate peoples on account of its supposed inherent magical powers, or as being animated by a spirit.A fetish (in sense 1b) differs from an idol in that it is worshipped in its own character, not as the image, symbol, or occasional residence of a deity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > fetish

fetisheer1665

manitou1671

festiso1680

medicine1767

wakon1841

fetish1849

fetishry1885

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) VI. xv. 651 Hereon were set many strawen Rings called Fatissos or Gods.

1696 J. Ovington Voy. Suratt 67 They [sc. these Africans] Travel no where without their Fateish about them.

a1712 J. Barbot Descr. N. & S.-Guinea iii. xvii, in Churchill's Coll. Voy. (1732) V. 230/2 The..gold is..cast into sundry shapes and sizes, which some there call Fetissos, signifying in Portuguese charms.

1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 102 There is also at Cabo Corso, a publick Fetish, the Guardian of them all; and that is the Rock Tabra.

1761 Brit. Mag. 2 294 The chief fetiche is the snake.

1803 T. Winterbottom Acct. Native Africans Sierra Leone I. vii. 123 The gree-gree, or fetish, hung round their neck.

1803 T. Winterbottom Acct. Native Africans Sierra Leone I. xiv. 228 Idols. These are called Fe-teesh.

1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1837) III. 84 As well might the poor African prepare for himself a fetisch by plucking out the eyes of the eagle.

1849 J. C. Prichard in J. F. W. Herschel Man. Sci. Enq. (Lords Commissioners Admiralty) 437 Others..worship fetiches or visible objects, in which they suppose some magical or supernatural power to be concealed.

1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xxv. 523 A greegree or fetish is thrown away as useless when the consecrating nostrum is discovered to be inoperative.

1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 118 If the wishes of the worshipper be not granted..the fetich.. is kicked, stamped on, dragged through the mud.

c. figurative. Something irrationally reverenced.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > quality of inspiring reverence > [noun] > object > irrationally

fetish1837

1837 R. W. Emerson Oration before Phi Beta Kappa Soc. 17 Some fetish of a government..is cried up by half mankind.

1867 G. Smith Three Eng. Statesmen (1882) 192 He was a worshipper of Constitutional Monarchy. It was his fetish.

1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 140 Public opinion, the fetish even of the nineteenth century.

d. Psychology. An object, a non-sexual part of the body, or a particular action which abnormally serves as the stimulus to, or the end in itself of, sexual desire.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > other mental illness

sin-wooda1325

wanton sick1602

affective1858

theroid1867

fetishized1889

fetish1901

negativistic1902

pseudo-homosexual1908

involutional1910

regressive1911

lata1913

sadomasochistic1921

rejected1931

catathymic1934

acting-out1945

nemesistic1945

sadomasochist1945

acted-out1996

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > sexual fetishism > object, action, etc., serving as stimulus

fetish1901

1901 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. I. 380/2 In certain perversions of the sexual instinct, the person, part of the body, or particular object belonging to the person by whom the impulse is excited, is called the fetich of the patient.

1954 R. M. Dorcus & G. W. Shaffer Textbk. Abnormal Psychol. (ed. 4) vii. 262 It is only when the fetish assumes the proportion that it inhibits the usual processes of the amatory desire that it belongs in the latter [abnormal] category.

1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex 71 Fetish, some object to which special sexual significance is attached.

†2. In representations of African languages: incantation, worship; a magical or religious rite or observance; an oath. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [noun] > solemn

oathOE

swarec1200

sermenta1325

jurament1575

asseveration1602

sanction1611

contestation1614

vowa1616

dejeration1626

sweara1643

dejury1683

fetish1705

vum1881

oath-pledge1884

society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > heathen general > [noun]

orgy1561

puppetry1572

orgion1613

fetish1705

orgiaca1859

the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > vow or oath > of particular type

abjuration?a1439

professing1560

vow of silence1567

oath of allegiance1574

vow1600

affidation1612

abjuration1621

fetish1705

affidature1727

pledge of allegiance1750

abjuration of the realm1768

oath-parole1900

Guide's honour1912

1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea x. 148 They cry out, Let us make Fetiche; by which they express as much, as let us perform our Religious Worship.

1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea x. 148 If they are injured by another they make Fetiche to destroy him.

1727 W. Snelgrave Acct. Guinea (1734) 22 The Lord of the Place had taken his Fetiche or Oath.

1727 W. Snelgrave Acct. Guinea (1734) 59 They have all their particular Fetiches..Some are to eat no Sheep, others no Goats.

1804 M. Edgeworth Grateful Negro in Pop. Tales III. 216 An old Koromantyn negro..administered the fetish, or solemn oath.

1828 G. W. Bridges Ann. Jamaica II. xix. 404 To take a fetiche is to take an oath, and to make a fetiche is to render worship.

†3. (See quot. 1705) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > alloy of precious metals > gold alloy

alchemya1393

fetish1705

1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea vi. 73 Gold..mixed with Fetiche's, which are a sort of Artificial Gold composed of several Ingredients.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

fetish-bird n.

ΚΠ

1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind vi. 347 If a white man shoots an invulnerable fetish-bird, this does not destroy the bird's invulnerability in their eyes.

fetish-ceremony n.

ΚΠ

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. xv. 649 Causing her to eat salt with divers Fetisso ceremonies hereafter mentioned.

fetish-day n.

ΚΠ

1819 T. E. Bowdich Mission to Ashantee ii. iv. 266 In Ashantee there is not a common fetish day.

fetish-gold n.

ΚΠ

1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 183 The Fetish-Gold is that which the Negroes cast into various Shapes, and wear as Ornaments.

fetish-house n.

ΚΠ

1744 W. Smith's New Voy. Guinea 196 They are kept in Fittish~houses or Churches built for that Purpose in a Grove.

1819 T. E. Bowdich Mission to Ashantee ii. iii. 254 The gold..deposited with their bones in the fetish house..is sacred.

fetish object n.

ΚΠ

1914 W. McDougall Introd. Social Psychol. (ed. 8) Suppl. ii. 407 If woman were by nature nothing more for man than an object capable of stimulating his ‘erogenous zones’..she would be merely the chief of many ‘fetish objects’.

1958 Spectator 1 Aug. 168/3 His favourite teddy or toy or whatever is his ‘fetish object’ should, of course, go with him.

fetish phoenix n.

ΚΠ

1895 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 229/2 From the ashes of one fetich phoenix arose another equally strong.

fetish-priest n.

ΚΠ

1877 J. E. Carpenter tr. C. P. Tiele Outl. Hist. Relig. 10 The power possessed by the..fetish priests is by no means small.

fetish-word n.

ΚΠ

a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) 396 To most of us today it [sc. ‘God’] is a fetish-word.

fetish-worship n.

ΚΠ

1807 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 23 539 The Veneration for the Lares was originally a Fetiche-worship.

1860 H. B. Tristram Great Sahara i. 16 Traces of fetish worship in Algiers.

C2. Objective.

fetish-monger n.

ΚΠ

1888 Sc. Leader 9 Oct. 4 The innate separatism of the Unionist fetishmonger stands confessed.

fetish-worshipper n.

ΚΠ

1857 Sat. Rev. 3 345/2 Miserable fetish-worshippers.

fetish-worshipping adj.

ΚΠ

1861 W. G. Clark in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 54 One must go among fetish-worshipping savages.

C3.

fetish-man n. (a) one who claims to have communion with and power over fetishes, a fetish-priest; (b) a fetish-worshipper.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > fetish > one believing in

fetish-man1735

fetish-woman1735

society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of inanimate object > practitioner of

fetishist1845

fetish-woman1875

fetish-man1889

1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 101 The Cunning of the Fetish-Man (or Priest).

1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xvi. 281 He..went away in wrath to the fetish-man, and..asked for a fetish against his rival.

1889 Dublin Rev. Jan. 134 A rude tribe of fetishmen and idol-worshippers.

fetish-woman n. = fetish-man n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > fetish > one believing in

fetish-man1735

fetish-woman1735

society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of inanimate object > practitioner of

fetishist1845

fetish-woman1875

fetish-man1889

1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 104 At Accra they have Fetish-Women..who pretend Divination.

1875 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 3) i. 22 The Fetich women in Dahome.

Derivatives

ˈfetishized adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > other mental illness

sin-wooda1325

wanton sick1602

affective1858

theroid1867

fetishized1889

fetish1901

negativistic1902

pseudo-homosexual1908

involutional1910

regressive1911

lata1913

sadomasochistic1921

rejected1931

catathymic1934

acting-out1945

nemesistic1945

sadomasochist1945

acted-out1996

1889 P. T. Forsyth Relig. in Recent Art 184 The Christian faith, not parched..or fetishised, but pervaded..with the solemn human soul.

1962 Listener 22 Mar. 512/2 Lukács's description of existentialism as a ‘permanent carnival of fetishized inwardness’ touched a raw nerve.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	fetish
释义	fetishn. Brit. /ˈfɛtɪʃ/, /ˈfiːtɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈfɛdɪʃ/ Forms: 1600s–1700s fetisso, (1700s feitisso), (1600s fateish, 1800s feteesh, fetisch, fetishe, fetiss), 1700s fittish, 1700s– fetich(e, fetish. Etymology: < French fétiche, < Portuguese feitiço noun, charm, sorcery (from which the earliest English forms are directly adopted) = Spanish hechizo in same sense; a substantive use of feitiço adjective ‘made by art, artificial, skilfully contrived’ = Spanish hechizo , Italian fattizio , Old French faitis (see featous adj.) < Latin factīcius factitious adj. 1. Thesaurus » Categories » a. Originally: any of the objects used by the indigenous peoples of the Guinea coast and the neighbouring regions as amulets or means of enchantment, or regarded by them with superstitious dread. b. By writers on anthropology (following C. de Brosses, Le Culte des Dieux Fétiches, 1760) used in wider sense: an inanimate object worshipped by preliterate peoples on account of its supposed inherent magical powers, or as being animated by a spirit.A fetish (in sense 1b) differs from an idol in that it is worshipped in its own character, not as the image, symbol, or occasional residence of a deity. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > fetish fetisheer1665 manitou1671 festiso1680 medicine1767 wakon1841 fetish1849 fetishry1885 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) VI. xv. 651 Hereon were set many strawen Rings called Fatissos or Gods. 1696 J. Ovington Voy. Suratt 67 They [sc. these Africans] Travel no where without their Fateish about them. a1712 J. Barbot Descr. N. & S.-Guinea iii. xvii, in Churchill's Coll. Voy. (1732) V. 230/2 The..gold is..cast into sundry shapes and sizes, which some there call Fetissos, signifying in Portuguese charms. 1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 102 There is also at Cabo Corso, a publick Fetish, the Guardian of them all; and that is the Rock Tabra. 1761 Brit. Mag. 2 294 The chief fetiche is the snake. 1803 T. Winterbottom Acct. Native Africans Sierra Leone I. vii. 123 The gree-gree, or fetish, hung round their neck. 1803 T. Winterbottom Acct. Native Africans Sierra Leone I. xiv. 228 Idols. These are called Fe-teesh. 1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1837) III. 84 As well might the poor African prepare for himself a fetisch by plucking out the eyes of the eagle. 1849 J. C. Prichard in J. F. W. Herschel Man. Sci. Enq. (Lords Commissioners Admiralty) 437 Others..worship fetiches or visible objects, in which they suppose some magical or supernatural power to be concealed. 1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xxv. 523 A greegree or fetish is thrown away as useless when the consecrating nostrum is discovered to be inoperative. 1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 118 If the wishes of the worshipper be not granted..the fetich.. is kicked, stamped on, dragged through the mud. c. figurative. Something irrationally reverenced. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > quality of inspiring reverence > [noun] > object > irrationally fetish1837 1837 R. W. Emerson Oration before Phi Beta Kappa Soc. 17 Some fetish of a government..is cried up by half mankind. 1867 G. Smith Three Eng. Statesmen (1882) 192 He was a worshipper of Constitutional Monarchy. It was his fetish. 1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 140 Public opinion, the fetish even of the nineteenth century. d. Psychology. An object, a non-sexual part of the body, or a particular action which abnormally serves as the stimulus to, or the end in itself of, sexual desire. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > other mental illness sin-wooda1325 wanton sick1602 affective1858 theroid1867 fetishized1889 fetish1901 negativistic1902 pseudo-homosexual1908 involutional1910 regressive1911 lata1913 sadomasochistic1921 rejected1931 catathymic1934 acting-out1945 nemesistic1945 sadomasochist1945 acted-out1996 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > sexual fetishism > object, action, etc., serving as stimulus fetish1901 1901 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. I. 380/2 In certain perversions of the sexual instinct, the person, part of the body, or particular object belonging to the person by whom the impulse is excited, is called the fetich of the patient. 1954 R. M. Dorcus & G. W. Shaffer Textbk. Abnormal Psychol. (ed. 4) vii. 262 It is only when the fetish assumes the proportion that it inhibits the usual processes of the amatory desire that it belongs in the latter [abnormal] category. 1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex 71 Fetish, some object to which special sexual significance is attached. †2. In representations of African languages: incantation, worship; a magical or religious rite or observance; an oath. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [noun] > solemn oathOE swarec1200 sermenta1325 jurament1575 asseveration1602 sanction1611 contestation1614 vowa1616 dejeration1626 sweara1643 dejury1683 fetish1705 vum1881 oath-pledge1884 society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > heathen general > [noun] orgy1561 puppetry1572 orgion1613 fetish1705 orgiaca1859 the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > vow or oath > of particular type abjuration?a1439 professing1560 vow of silence1567 oath of allegiance1574 vow1600 affidation1612 abjuration1621 fetish1705 affidature1727 pledge of allegiance1750 abjuration of the realm1768 oath-parole1900 Guide's honour1912 1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea x. 148 They cry out, Let us make Fetiche; by which they express as much, as let us perform our Religious Worship. 1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea x. 148 If they are injured by another they make Fetiche to destroy him. 1727 W. Snelgrave Acct. Guinea (1734) 22 The Lord of the Place had taken his Fetiche or Oath. 1727 W. Snelgrave Acct. Guinea (1734) 59 They have all their particular Fetiches..Some are to eat no Sheep, others no Goats. 1804 M. Edgeworth Grateful Negro in Pop. Tales III. 216 An old Koromantyn negro..administered the fetish, or solemn oath. 1828 G. W. Bridges Ann. Jamaica II. xix. 404 To take a fetiche is to take an oath, and to make a fetiche is to render worship. †3. (See quot. 1705) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > alloy of precious metals > gold alloy alchemya1393 fetish1705 1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea vi. 73 Gold..mixed with Fetiche's, which are a sort of Artificial Gold composed of several Ingredients. Compounds C1. General attributive. fetish-bird n. ΚΠ 1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind vi. 347 If a white man shoots an invulnerable fetish-bird, this does not destroy the bird's invulnerability in their eyes. fetish-ceremony n. ΚΠ 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. xv. 649 Causing her to eat salt with divers Fetisso ceremonies hereafter mentioned. fetish-day n. ΚΠ 1819 T. E. Bowdich Mission to Ashantee ii. iv. 266 In Ashantee there is not a common fetish day. fetish-gold n. ΚΠ 1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 183 The Fetish-Gold is that which the Negroes cast into various Shapes, and wear as Ornaments. fetish-house n. ΚΠ 1744 W. Smith's New Voy. Guinea 196 They are kept in Fittish~houses or Churches built for that Purpose in a Grove. 1819 T. E. Bowdich Mission to Ashantee ii. iii. 254 The gold..deposited with their bones in the fetish house..is sacred. fetish object n. ΚΠ 1914 W. McDougall Introd. Social Psychol. (ed. 8) Suppl. ii. 407 If woman were by nature nothing more for man than an object capable of stimulating his ‘erogenous zones’..she would be merely the chief of many ‘fetish objects’. 1958 Spectator 1 Aug. 168/3 His favourite teddy or toy or whatever is his ‘fetish object’ should, of course, go with him. fetish phoenix n. ΚΠ 1895 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 229/2 From the ashes of one fetich phoenix arose another equally strong. fetish-priest n. ΚΠ 1877 J. E. Carpenter tr. C. P. Tiele Outl. Hist. Relig. 10 The power possessed by the..fetish priests is by no means small. fetish-word n. ΚΠ a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) 396 To most of us today it [sc. ‘God’] is a fetish-word. fetish-worship n. ΚΠ 1807 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 23 539 The Veneration for the Lares was originally a Fetiche-worship. 1860 H. B. Tristram Great Sahara i. 16 Traces of fetish worship in Algiers. C2. Objective. fetish-monger n. ΚΠ 1888 Sc. Leader 9 Oct. 4 The innate separatism of the Unionist fetishmonger stands confessed. fetish-worshipper n. ΚΠ 1857 Sat. Rev. 3 345/2 Miserable fetish-worshippers. fetish-worshipping adj. ΚΠ 1861 W. G. Clark in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 54 One must go among fetish-worshipping savages. C3. fetish-man n. (a) one who claims to have communion with and power over fetishes, a fetish-priest; (b) a fetish-worshipper. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > fetish > one believing in fetish-man1735 fetish-woman1735 society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of inanimate object > practitioner of fetishist1845 fetish-woman1875 fetish-man1889 1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 101 The Cunning of the Fetish-Man (or Priest). 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xvi. 281 He..went away in wrath to the fetish-man, and..asked for a fetish against his rival. 1889 Dublin Rev. Jan. 134 A rude tribe of fetishmen and idol-worshippers. fetish-woman n. = fetish-man n. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > fetish > one believing in fetish-man1735 fetish-woman1735 society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of inanimate object > practitioner of fetishist1845 fetish-woman1875 fetish-man1889 1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 104 At Accra they have Fetish-Women..who pretend Divination. 1875 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 3) i. 22 The Fetich women in Dahome. Derivatives ˈfetishized adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > other mental illness sin-wooda1325 wanton sick1602 affective1858 theroid1867 fetishized1889 fetish1901 negativistic1902 pseudo-homosexual1908 involutional1910 regressive1911 lata1913 sadomasochistic1921 rejected1931 catathymic1934 acting-out1945 nemesistic1945 sadomasochist1945 acted-out1996 1889 P. T. Forsyth Relig. in Recent Art 184 The Christian faith, not parched..or fetishised, but pervaded..with the solemn human soul. 1962 Listener 22 Mar. 512/2 Lukács's description of existentialism as a ‘permanent carnival of fetishized inwardness’ touched a raw nerve. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † fetishv. Etymology: < fetish n. Obsolete. Thesaurus » Categories » a. transitive. To provide or adorn with a fetish: see fetish n. 1. b. intransitive for reflexive. To adorn oneself, dress up. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautify (the person) [verb (intransitive)] trick?1532 mundify1568 prune1568 to finify it1586 prink1591 brisk1592 tiff1700 fetish1735 beautify1777 adonize1781 fix1783 smart1794 smarten1813 titivate1835 primp1887 doll1916 1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 61 The Women are fondest of what they call Fetishing, setting themselves out to attract the good Graces of the Men. 1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 73 The Natives are..better fetished than their Neighbours. 1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 88 The Women fetish with a coarse Paint of Earth on their Faces. 1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 95 She..being always barefoot and fetished with Chains and Gobbets of Gold, at her Ancles. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1613v.1735
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fetishn.

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† fetishv.