Crossword clues for bonze
bonze
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bonze \Bon"ze\ (b[o^]n"z[-e]; 277), n. [Pg. bonzo, fr. Japan. b[=o]zu a Buddhist priest: cf. F. bonze.] A Buddhist or Fohist priest, monk, or nun.
Note: The name was given by the Portuguese to the priests of Japan, and has since been applied to the priests of China, Cochin China, and the neighboring countries.
Wiktionary
n. A Buddhist priest in Japan.
Usage examples of "bonze".
The bonze muttered the shortest prayer that I had ever heard, and the sergeant at arms asked if the victim had any last words.
The condemned man began a desperate plea for mercy, which the bonze cut short by nodding to the executioners.
His neck lay on the block, and the bonze mumbled a prayer, and the sergeant at arms asked if he had any last words.
I turned a suspicious eye upon my friend, the Bonze, to whose indiscretions, I thought, I was indebted for the quick reply.
I was examining the mirror, the Yamabooshi hastily spoke a few words to the Bonze, Tamoora, at which I threw a furtive and suspicious glance at both.
The passage from the active waking state to one that I could compare with nothing I had ever experienced before, was so rapid, that while my eyes had ceased to perceive external objects and had completely lost sight of the Bonze, the Yamabooshi, and even of my room, I could nevertheless distinctly see the whole of my head and my back, as I sat leaning forward with the mirror in my hand.
In short, I begged my friend the Bonze to spare me his protests, and thus the unpleasantness of breaking with him for ever.
I sailed, but during my stay I saw my venerable friend, the Bonze, no more.
So sure did I feel, that my vision was due merely to some trick of the Yamabooshi, that I actually gloated over my coming triumph in writing to the Bonze that I had been right in answering his sad words of parting with an incredulous smile, as my sister and family were all in good health--happy!
I heard the familiar voice of the Bonze interrupting my reflections, and repeating an often used argument of his in his discussions with me.
At this moment my hatred to the Yamabooshi, and even to my venerable old friend, the Bonze, knew no bounds.
I was listening to the philosophical discourses of the Bonze, every word of which I heard and understood, and was trying to laugh him to scorn.
Reincarnation, in which the Bonze felt so anxious I should believe, may be true .
Had I but followed the friendly advice of the Bonze, Tamoora, and telegraphed to the authorities some weeks previous to my return much might have been avoided.
Trinket was beginning to get pins and needles, and kept restlessly jumping up and sitting down again, inwardly cursing the old bonze and his ancestors.