| 释义 |
peyotism|ˈpeɪjətɪz(ə)m|
[f. peyote + -ism.]
A religious cult of American Indians in which peyote is taken sacramentally. Hence peˈyotist, one who practises this religion.
1934V. Petrullo (title) The diabolic root: a study of peyotism, the new Indian religion, among the Delawares. Ibid. ii. 126 The original Peyote people claim that one cannot be a Christian and a Peyotist at the same time. 1953A. Huxley Let. 17 Aug. (1969) 683 No craving..even among people who have been peyotists for forty or fifty years. 1957P. Worsley Trumpet shall Sound 223 Henceforth the Indians turned..to pacific cults like peyotism. 1971E. Shorris Death of Great Spirit iii. 34 God may change the peyotist, but the peyotist..has no hope of changing God. Ibid. 38 Apologists for peyotism say, ‘It is the only thing we have left that is Indian.’ |