fakirn.
/ˈfeɪkɪə/, /ˈfakɪə/, /fəˈkɪə/, U.S. /fəˈkɪ(ə)r/ a. ‘Properly an indigent person, but specially applied to a Mahommedan religious mendicant, and then loosely, and inaccurately, to Hindu devotees and naked ascetics’ (Yule).
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > asceticism > [noun] > fakirism > fakir
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the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar > Muslim or Hindu (religious)
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sanyasi1613
calender1638
Pandaram1710
Naga1828
dandy1832
society > faith > church government > monasticism > friar > [noun] > Muslim
dervish1585
fakir1609
whirler1815
Rifai1832
society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > asceticism or mortification > [noun] > in Hinduism or Jainism > person
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Sant1909
1609 R. C. True Hist. Disc. Muley Hamets Rising vii. sig. C3/2 Fokers, are men of good life, which are onely given to peace.
1638 W. Bruton Newes from E.-Indies 27 They are called Fuckeires.
1704 tr. P. Baldæus True Descr. Malabar & Coromandel in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. III. 568/1 You shall take care to embark all the Facquiers.
1761 L. Scrafton Refl. Govt. Indostan i. 29 Bestowing a part of their plunder on..Faquirs.
1813 Ld. Byron Giaour (ed. 4) 14 Nor there the Fakeer's self will wait.
1861 C. Dickens Tom Tiddler's Ground i, in All Year Round Extra Christmas No., 12 Dec. 1/2 A Hindoo fakeer's ground.
1874 J. Morley On Compromise 138 A fakir would not be an estimable figure in our society.
b. erroneous for faker n. 3a, pronounced /ˈfeɪkə(r)/. U.S.
/ˈfeɪkə(r)/. U.S.ΚΠ
1882 in S. Poe Buckboard Days (1936) 99 Thieves, Thugs, Fakirs and Bunkco-Steerers.
1902 A. D. McFaul Ike Glidden xvii. 127 Each day brought its new characters, fakirs, peddlers, schemers and promoters.
1903 N.Y. Evening Post 31 Oct. 5 One may see at almost any of the downtown corners a street fakir selling shoestrings.
1932 E. Wilson Devil take Hindmost ix. 87 Some listen to a patent-medicine fakir.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations, as fakir-race; fakir-like adj. and adv.
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the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [adjective] > Muslim or Hindu religious beggar
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > friar > [adjective] > Muslim
Rifai1832
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the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar > Muslim or Hindu (religious) > collectively
fakir-racea1843
society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > asceticism or mortification > [adjective] > person > Hindu
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > friar > [noun] > Muslim > race
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society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > asceticism or mortification > [noun] > in Hinduism or Jainism > person > race
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a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1849) 2nd Ser. 390/2 Pilgrims..carrying bars of iron,..fakir-like.
1859 I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 146 The genuine successors..of a fakir race.
1884 Pall Mall Budget 22 Aug. 6/2 The fakir-like devotion with which he has fixed his eyes upon..the House of Lords.
Derivatives
fakirism n. the system, faith, and practice of the Fakirs.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > asceticism > [noun] > fakirism
fakirism1856
society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > asceticism or mortification > [noun] > in Hinduism or Jainism
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fakirism1856
the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar > Muslim or Hindu (religious) > system or practice of
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > friar > [noun] > Muslim > system, faith, or practice of
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1856 C. Kingsley Hours with Mystics in Misc. (1860) I. 349 Hindoo mysticism..has died down into brutal fakeerism.
1883 Goldw. Smith in Contemp. Rev. Dec. 806 Fakirism is devil-worship.
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