Crossword-Solution: TOHUNGA
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TOHUNGA | anagram | HANGOUT |
We have 1 clue for the answer “TOHUNGA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Māori priest | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AERA
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with TOHUNGA (5)
The liveliest account of the performances of the Maori "tohunga" or sorcerer is to be found in Old New Zealand,(7) by the Pakeha Maori, an English gentleman who had lived with the natives like one of themselves.
The tohunga, says this author,(8) presided over "all those services and customs which had something approaching to a religious character.
The Pakeha Maori was present in a darkened village-hall when the spirit of a young man, a great friend of his own, was called up by a tohunga.
The voice all through, it is to be remembered, was not the voice of the tohunga, but a strange melancholy sound, like the sound of a wind blowing into a hollow vessel.
This is natural enough, for a tohunga, if he plays his cards well, is sure to acquire property and hereditary wealth, which, in combination with magical influence, are the necessary qualifications for the office of the chieftain.