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Tabooed

Taboo \Ta*boo"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tabooed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tabooing.] To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals. [Written also tabu.]

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tabooed
  1. forbidden; prohibited. v

  2. (en-past of: taboo)

Usage examples of "tabooed".

For instance, a native is tabooed for several days when his hair is cut.

The mountain is tabooed, and if it devoured its sacrilegious intruders, it would only be more inviolably tabooed.

According to the Maories, anyone who touches a tabooed object will assuredly die, the tabooed object being a sort of "anti-talisman".

After four years these two met together again, and his old friend asked him `if he would eat a wild hen,' to which he answered that it was tabooed to him.

He went to the shore to embark, but found all the canoes hauled up on the beach and rigorously tabooed, or interdicted.

On receiving intelligence of this event, Tamaahmaah had immediately tabooed all the canoes, and interdicted all intercourse with the ship, lest the captain should learn the fate of the schooner, and take his revenge upon the island.