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fetisheer, fetisher|fɛtɪˈʃɪə(r), ˈfɛtɪʃə(r)|
Forms: 7 fetissero, (7 fetessor, 9 fetisser), 8 feticheer, -er, (9 fetisheer), 7– fetisher.
[ad. Pg. feiticeiro, f. feitiço: see fetish n.; influenced in the later forms by Fr. fétiche or Eng. fetish.]
1. A charmer, sorcerer, ‘medicine-man’; a priest.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage vi. xv. (1614) 653 A certaine water offered them to drinke by the Fetissero. 1687J. Hillier in Phil. Trans. (1697) XIX. 687 The Fetishers had done all they could to save his [the King of Feton's] Life. 1783W. F. Martyn Geog. Mag. I. 676 Each feticheer or priest, has a fetiche of his own. 1844Ld. Brougham A. Lunel II. ix. 237 The Fetisser or priest now muttered over the board certain incantations. 1864Sat. Rev. XVIII. 458/1 The priests or fetisheers are all-powerful in Dahome.
2. = fetish n. 1.
1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 9 Mokisses, fetessors, deformed Idols being indeared amongst them. 1699W. Dampier Voy. II. ii. iv. 105 The Natives call him..and say he [Hippopotamus] is Fetissero, which is a kind of God.
Hence fetiˈsheeress, a female fetisheer.
1864R. F. Burton Dahome II. 155 A quarter of the female population in Dahome may be fetisheeresses. |