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n. A ban or an inhibition resulting from social custom or emotional aversion.

n. A prohibition, especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands, excluding something from use, approach, or mention because of its sacred and inviolable nature.

n. An object, a word, or an act protected by such a prohibition.

adj. Excluded or forbidden from use, approach, or mention: a taboo subject.

v. To exclude from use, approach, or mention; place under taboo.

n. An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.

n. Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.

adj. Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.

v. To mark as taboo.

v. To ban.

v. To avoid.

n. A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction.

v. To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of.

adj. Set apart or sacred by religious custom among certain races of Polynesia, New Zealand, etc., and forbidden to certain persons or uses; hence, prohibited under severe penalties; interdicted.

Among the Polynesians and other races of the South Pacific, separated or set apart either as forbidden or as sacred; placed under ban or prohibition; consecrated either to exclusion or avoidance or to special use, regard, or service; hence, in English use, forbidden; interdicted.

n. Among the Polynesians and other races of the South Pacific, a system, practice, or act whereby persons, things, places, actions, or words are or may be placed under a ban, curse, or prohibition, or set apart as sacred or privileged in some specific manner, usually with very severe penalties for infraction.

n. Hence A prohibitory or restraining injunction or demonstration; restraint or exclusion, as from social intercourse or from use, imposed by some controlling influence; ban; prohibition; ostracism: as, to put a person or a thing under taboo. See the verb.

To put under taboo; disallow, or forbid the use of; interdict approach to, or contact or intercourse with; hence, to ban, exclude, or ostracize by personal authority or social influence: as, to taboo the use of tobacco; a tabooed person or subject (one not to be mentioned or discussed).

v. declare as sacred and forbidden

adj. forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands

n. a prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature

n. an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion

adj. excluded from use or mention

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sacred    impermissible   

tabooed    tabooing   

restrict    prejudice    preconception    bias    inhibition   

tabu   

tabooed    tabooing   

interdiction    interdicted    inviolable    forbidden    forbiddance    forbid   

Baku    Blue    Cebu    Chengdu    Chou    Chu    Crewe    Drew    Ewe    Few   

norm    mores    ritual    prohibition    conventions    ordinance    commandment    tabu    etiquette    observance