| 释义 |
‖ peai, n.|piːˈaɪ|
Also 7 peeai, peei, 8 piaye, 8–9 peii, 9 paye, piai.
[ad. Carib piai (Tamanac piache); in F. piaye (A. Biet Voyage en Cayenne (1664) iii. 385).]
A medicine-man or witch-doctor among the Indians of Guiana and other parts of South America: cf. piache.
1613R. Harcourt Guiana 26 Their Peeaios, Priests, or Southsayers, at some special times haue conference with the diuell. 1667G. Warren Surinam 26 Their impostors, or, as they call them, Peeies. 1732J. Barbot Guiana in Collect. Voy. (Churchill) V. 553 A Piaye, or Doctor among them. 1796Stedman Surinam (1806) I. 414 Exorcised by the Peii or priest. 1881W. H. Brett Mission Work Guiana 53 These Piai sorcerers of the aborigines.
b. Now usually peˈai-man (also pee-ay-, pe-i-, piai-, pee-ay-, pee-a-, paiman).
1825Waterton Wand. S. Amer. iii. 191 They have a kind of a priest called a pee-ay-man. 1854H. G. Dalton Brit. Guiana (1855) I. 83 After application to a Pe-i-man or Piai-man or conjurer. 1883Academy 8 Dec. 375/3 The peaimen, or tribal medicine men. 1899Redway Guiana Wilds 119 In the opinion of his friends some enemy was at work, and the Peaiman would drive him away.
Hence peˈai v. trans., to practise the arts of a peai-man upon; to treat by witch-doctoring; peˈaiing, peˈaiism, the practice and system of a peai-man.
1876C. B. Brown Brit. Guiana vi, Peai-ing. 1881W. H. Brett Mission Work Guiana 53, I was warned that they were going to piai me, that is to cause sickness or death. 1882E. F. Im Thurn in Jrnl. Anthrop. Inst. 366 To explain the system of peaiism. 1896A. Lang Cock Lane 39 We are fortunate in finding an educated observer who submitted to be peaied. |