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‖ piache|piˈatʃe|
Also 6–7 piace.
[Tamanac (on the Orinoco) piache, in Accaway piatsan = Carib piai peai; in Sp. piache.]
A medicine-man or witch-doctor among the Indians of Central and South America; a peai-man.
1555Eden Decades 181 The professours of this secte were called Piaces. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 826 They call their Priests Piaces. 1852Th. Ross tr. Humboldt's Trav. I. vi. 248 A resin very much sought after by the Piaches, or Indian sorcerers. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho xxiv, The Piache from whines rose to screams and gesticulations, and then to violent convulsions. |