manismn.

1904 G. S. Hall Adolescence II. xii. 179 Culture developed through the four stages of manism, when each [sc. the moon, sun, planets, etc.] was regarded as only the sensuous object it seemed, [etc.].

1950 Funk's Standard Dict. Folklore II. 673/1 Manism, the general term for the worship of the spirits of the dead, and, more specifically, for ancestor worship, is widespread in the world.

1956 E. E. Evans-Pritchard Nuer Relig. xiii. 311 Many such origins have been propounded: magic, fetishism, manism, animism.

1933 J. D. Unwin Sexual Regul. & Human Behaviour i. 1 Uncivilised peoples..Manistic—these do not erect temples but they pay some kind of post-funeral attention to their dead.

1937 A. Huxley Ends & Means xv. 311 All human societies are in one or another of four cultural conditions: zoistic, manistic, deistic, rationalistic.