Anito

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the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. In Guam and the Philippines, an idol, fetich, or spirit.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An ancestral spirit worshiped as a protecting household deity by the pagan Malay peoples of the Philippine Islands, and frequently represented by an image of wood or other material which is carefully preserved.
  • Word Usage
    "Now, with their new religious ideas, the Tagáls apply the term anito to any superstition, false worship, idol, etc."
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