Crossword-Solution: TOTEMIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Totemic | a. | Of or pertaining to a totem, or totemism. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “TOTEMIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like carved emblems | 1 answer |
| Using animal emblems | 1 answer |
| Of tribal symbols. | 1 answer |
| Of tribal emblems. | 1 answer |
| Of primitive tribal symbols. | 1 answer |
| Of an emblem. | 1 answer |
| Of a tribal spirit | 1 answer |
| Of a symbol. | 1 answer |
| Of a clan symbol. | 1 answer |
| Of a clan emblem | 1 answer |
| Like a venerated object | 1 answer |
| Like a tribal emblem | 1 answer |
| Distinctly representative | 1 answer |
| Pole-ish? | 2 answers |
| Serving as a symbol | 3 answers |
| Distinctly | 7 answers |
| DISTINCTLY DISSIMILAR OR UNLIKE | 10 answers |
| Representative | 67 answers |
| symbolic | 73 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TOTEMIC (5)
Some, covered with obscene totemic figures and designs, were carved from solid tree trunks forty or fifty feet in length.
Nilus (fifth century) has left a detailed account of the occasional sacrifice in his time of a spotless white camel among the Arabs of the Sinai region, which closely resembles a totemic communion-feast.
Such a belief is often found among totemic tribes who imagine that their ancestors sprang from their totemic animals or plants; but it is by no means confined to them.
The occurrence of stories of this type among totemic peoples, such as the Tshi-speaking negroes of the Gold Coast, who tell them to explain their totemic taboos, suggests that all such tales may have originated in totemism.
Grey, "A Vocabulary of the Dialects of South Western Australia", Second Edition (London, 1840), pages 29, 37, 61, 63, 66, 71.) The Dieri tribe of Central Australia, who are divided into totemic clans, explain their origin by the following legend.
Quotes with TOTEMIC (3)
Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love. Look at it now, plump and glossy, floating across Idaho as if it were a mammoth, mutated seed pod. Hear how it backfires as it passes the silver mines, perhaps in tribute to the origin of the knives and forks of splendid sterling that a roast turkey and a roast turkey alone possesses the charisma to draw forth into festivity from dark cupboards. See how it glides through the potato fields, familiarl…
All these things we do bespeak a terrible anxiety: that our children simply will not be able to make it through life if we do not perform totemic acts to keep them on the path toward self-perfection and keep their lives pure and unfettered by distracting emotion, personality foibles, or less-than-ideal experiences.
We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated themselves from the community by playing the role of the Dead: to make oneself up was to designate oneself as a body simultaneously living and dead: the whitened bust of the totemic theater, the man with the painted face in the Chinese theater, the rice-paste makeup of the Indian Katha-Kali, the Japanese No mask ... Now it is this same relation which I find in the Photograph; how…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, WSJ.
Used 19 times in crossword archives (1948–2024).