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单词 fetish
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fetishn.

Brit. /ˈfɛtɪʃ/, /ˈfiːtɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈfɛdɪʃ/
Forms: 1600s–1700s fetisso, (1700s feitisso), (1600s fateish, 1800s feteesh, fetisch, fetishe, fetiss), 1700s fittish, 1700s– fetich(e, fetish.
Etymology: < French fétiche, < Portuguese feitiço noun, charm, sorcery (from which the earliest English forms are directly adopted) = Spanish hechizo in same sense; a substantive use of feitiço adjective ‘made by art, artificial, skilfully contrived’ = Spanish hechizo , Italian fattizio , Old French faitis (see featous adj.) < Latin factīcius factitious adj.
1.
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a. Originally: any of the objects used by the indigenous peoples of the Guinea coast and the neighbouring regions as amulets or means of enchantment, or regarded by them with superstitious dread.
b. By writers on anthropology (following C. de Brosses, Le Culte des Dieux Fétiches, 1760) used in wider sense: an inanimate object worshipped by preliterate peoples on account of its supposed inherent magical powers, or as being animated by a spirit.A fetish (in sense 1b) differs from an idol in that it is worshipped in its own character, not as the image, symbol, or occasional residence of a deity.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > fetish
fetisheer1665
manitou1671
festiso1680
medicine1767
wakon1841
fetish1849
fetishry1885
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) VI. xv. 651 Hereon were set many strawen Rings called Fatissos or Gods.
1696 J. Ovington Voy. Suratt 67 They [sc. these Africans] Travel no where without their Fateish about them.
a1712 J. Barbot Descr. N. & S.-Guinea iii. xvii, in Churchill's Coll. Voy. (1732) V. 230/2 The..gold is..cast into sundry shapes and sizes, which some there call Fetissos, signifying in Portuguese charms.
1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 102 There is also at Cabo Corso, a publick Fetish, the Guardian of them all; and that is the Rock Tabra.
1761 Brit. Mag. 2 294 The chief fetiche is the snake.
1803 T. Winterbottom Acct. Native Africans Sierra Leone I. vii. 123 The gree-gree, or fetish, hung round their neck.
1803 T. Winterbottom Acct. Native Africans Sierra Leone I. xiv. 228 Idols. These are called Fe-teesh.
1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1837) III. 84 As well might the poor African prepare for himself a fetisch by plucking out the eyes of the eagle.
1849 J. C. Prichard in J. F. W. Herschel Man. Sci. Enq. (Lords Commissioners Admiralty) 437 Others..worship fetiches or visible objects, in which they suppose some magical or supernatural power to be concealed.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xxv. 523 A greegree or fetish is thrown away as useless when the consecrating nostrum is discovered to be inoperative.
1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 118 If the wishes of the worshipper be not granted..the fetich.. is kicked, stamped on, dragged through the mud.
c. figurative. Something irrationally reverenced.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > quality of inspiring reverence > [noun] > object > irrationally
fetish1837
1837 R. W. Emerson Oration before Phi Beta Kappa Soc. 17 Some fetish of a government..is cried up by half mankind.
1867 G. Smith Three Eng. Statesmen (1882) 192 He was a worshipper of Constitutional Monarchy. It was his fetish.
1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 140 Public opinion, the fetish even of the nineteenth century.
d. Psychology. An object, a non-sexual part of the body, or a particular action which abnormally serves as the stimulus to, or the end in itself of, sexual desire.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > other mental illness
sin-wooda1325
wanton sick1602
affective1858
theroid1867
fetishized1889
fetish1901
negativistic1902
pseudo-homosexual1908
involutional1910
regressive1911
lata1913
sadomasochistic1921
rejected1931
catathymic1934
acting-out1945
nemesistic1945
sadomasochist1945
acted-out1996
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > sexual fetishism > object, action, etc., serving as stimulus
fetish1901
1901 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. I. 380/2 In certain perversions of the sexual instinct, the person, part of the body, or particular object belonging to the person by whom the impulse is excited, is called the fetich of the patient.
1954 R. M. Dorcus & G. W. Shaffer Textbk. Abnormal Psychol. (ed. 4) vii. 262 It is only when the fetish assumes the proportion that it inhibits the usual processes of the amatory desire that it belongs in the latter [abnormal] category.
1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex 71 Fetish, some object to which special sexual significance is attached.
2. In representations of African languages: incantation, worship; a magical or religious rite or observance; an oath. Obsolete.
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the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [noun] > solemn
oathOE
swarec1200
sermenta1325
jurament1575
asseveration1602
sanction1611
contestation1614
vowa1616
dejeration1626
sweara1643
dejury1683
fetish1705
vum1881
oath-pledge1884
society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > heathen general > [noun]
orgy1561
puppetry1572
orgion1613
fetish1705
orgiaca1859
the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > vow or oath > of particular type
abjuration?a1439
professing1560
vow of silence1567
oath of allegiance1574
vow1600
affidation1612
abjuration1621
fetish1705
affidature1727
pledge of allegiance1750
abjuration of the realm1768
oath-parole1900
Guide's honour1912
1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea x. 148 They cry out, Let us make Fetiche; by which they express as much, as let us perform our Religious Worship.
1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea x. 148 If they are injured by another they make Fetiche to destroy him.
1727 W. Snelgrave Acct. Guinea (1734) 22 The Lord of the Place had taken his Fetiche or Oath.
1727 W. Snelgrave Acct. Guinea (1734) 59 They have all their particular Fetiches..Some are to eat no Sheep, others no Goats.
1804 M. Edgeworth Grateful Negro in Pop. Tales III. 216 An old Koromantyn negro..administered the fetish, or solemn oath.
1828 G. W. Bridges Ann. Jamaica II. xix. 404 To take a fetiche is to take an oath, and to make a fetiche is to render worship.
3. (See quot. 1705) Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > alloy of precious metals > gold alloy
alchemya1393
fetish1705
1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea vi. 73 Gold..mixed with Fetiche's, which are a sort of Artificial Gold composed of several Ingredients.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
fetish-bird n.
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1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind vi. 347 If a white man shoots an invulnerable fetish-bird, this does not destroy the bird's invulnerability in their eyes.
fetish-ceremony n.
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1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. xv. 649 Causing her to eat salt with divers Fetisso ceremonies hereafter mentioned.
fetish-day n.
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1819 T. E. Bowdich Mission to Ashantee ii. iv. 266 In Ashantee there is not a common fetish day.
fetish-gold n.
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1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 183 The Fetish-Gold is that which the Negroes cast into various Shapes, and wear as Ornaments.
fetish-house n.
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1744 W. Smith's New Voy. Guinea 196 They are kept in Fittish~houses or Churches built for that Purpose in a Grove.
1819 T. E. Bowdich Mission to Ashantee ii. iii. 254 The gold..deposited with their bones in the fetish house..is sacred.
fetish object n.
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1914 W. McDougall Introd. Social Psychol. (ed. 8) Suppl. ii. 407 If woman were by nature nothing more for man than an object capable of stimulating his ‘erogenous zones’..she would be merely the chief of many ‘fetish objects’.
1958 Spectator 1 Aug. 168/3 His favourite teddy or toy or whatever is his ‘fetish object’ should, of course, go with him.
fetish phoenix n.
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1895 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 229/2 From the ashes of one fetich phoenix arose another equally strong.
fetish-priest n.
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1877 J. E. Carpenter tr. C. P. Tiele Outl. Hist. Relig. 10 The power possessed by the..fetish priests is by no means small.
fetish-word n.
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a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) 396 To most of us today it [sc. ‘God’] is a fetish-word.
fetish-worship n.
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1807 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 23 539 The Veneration for the Lares was originally a Fetiche-worship.
1860 H. B. Tristram Great Sahara i. 16 Traces of fetish worship in Algiers.
C2. Objective.
fetish-monger n.
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1888 Sc. Leader 9 Oct. 4 The innate separatism of the Unionist fetishmonger stands confessed.
fetish-worshipper n.
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1857 Sat. Rev. 3 345/2 Miserable fetish-worshippers.
fetish-worshipping adj.
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1861 W. G. Clark in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 54 One must go among fetish-worshipping savages.
C3.
fetish-man n. (a) one who claims to have communion with and power over fetishes, a fetish-priest; (b) a fetish-worshipper.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > fetish > one believing in
fetish-man1735
fetish-woman1735
society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of inanimate object > practitioner of
fetishist1845
fetish-woman1875
fetish-man1889
1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 101 The Cunning of the Fetish-Man (or Priest).
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xvi. 281 He..went away in wrath to the fetish-man, and..asked for a fetish against his rival.
1889 Dublin Rev. Jan. 134 A rude tribe of fetishmen and idol-worshippers.
fetish-woman n. = fetish-man n.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > fetish > one believing in
fetish-man1735
fetish-woman1735
society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of inanimate object > practitioner of
fetishist1845
fetish-woman1875
fetish-man1889
1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 104 At Accra they have Fetish-Women..who pretend Divination.
1875 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 3) i. 22 The Fetich women in Dahome.

Derivatives

ˈfetishized adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > other mental illness
sin-wooda1325
wanton sick1602
affective1858
theroid1867
fetishized1889
fetish1901
negativistic1902
pseudo-homosexual1908
involutional1910
regressive1911
lata1913
sadomasochistic1921
rejected1931
catathymic1934
acting-out1945
nemesistic1945
sadomasochist1945
acted-out1996
1889 P. T. Forsyth Relig. in Recent Art 184 The Christian faith, not parched..or fetishised, but pervaded..with the solemn human soul.
1962 Listener 22 Mar. 512/2 Lukács's description of existentialism as a ‘permanent carnival of fetishized inwardness’ touched a raw nerve.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

fetishv.

Etymology: < fetish n.
Obsolete.
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a. transitive. To provide or adorn with a fetish: see fetish n. 1.
b. intransitive for reflexive. To adorn oneself, dress up.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautify (the person) [verb (intransitive)]
trick?1532
mundify1568
prune1568
to finify it1586
prink1591
brisk1592
tiff1700
fetish1735
beautify1777
adonize1781
fix1783
smart1794
smarten1813
titivate1835
primp1887
doll1916
1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 61 The Women are fondest of what they call Fetishing, setting themselves out to attract the good Graces of the Men.
1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 73 The Natives are..better fetished than their Neighbours.
1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 88 The Women fetish with a coarse Paint of Earth on their Faces.
1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 95 She..being always barefoot and fetished with Chains and Gobbets of Gold, at her Ancles.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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