totemiten.
/ˈtəʊtəmʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈtoʊdəˌmaɪt/ A person who has a totem or who belongs to a totem clan; = totemist n. 1.
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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > [noun] > sign of a totem clan > one who belongs to a totem clan
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > idol > worshipped by specific people > American Indians > one who has
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > tribe > [noun] > small tribe or division of tribe > American Indian > member of
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1889 Trans. Royal Soc. Victoria 1 ii. 100 If he desires to invite his fellow totemites in a neighbouring tribe to hunt their common game, he does so.
1904 A. W. Howitt Native Tribes S.E. Austral. iii. 145 To dream about his own totem means that some one has done something to it for the purpose of harming the sleeper or one of his totemites.
1911 R. R. Marett Anthropol. vi. 167 Sometimes the totem is thought of as an ancestor, or as the common fund of life out of which the totemites are born and into which they go back when they die.
2002 Oceania 72 161 The person as totemite is engaged with Dreamings or is in spiritual communion with another human being.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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