单词 | moruti |
释义 | morutin. South African. In Southern Africa (esp. among Southern Sotho, Northern Sotho, and Tswana speakers): a teacher, missionary, or minister of religion. Cf. umfundisi n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > proselytization > mission > [noun] > one who conducts missionary1625 missioner1654 gospeller1673 umfundisi1825 God-man1842 moruti1866 missionizer1901 missionist1909 mish1939 1866 E. L. Price Let. 15 Nov. in Jrnls. (1956) 246 I think they wd. take anything fr. Roger, or any ‘Muruti’—so glad are they to get a teacher once more. a1875 T. Baines Jrnl. of Resid. II. 94 Instead of taking me to the Moorootze, Mr. Cameron, he left me in Morroko's kraal. 1918 C. Garstin Sunshine Settlers 163 They've got a new maruti over at Kala's Stad..from the missionary school. 1937 B. H. Dicke Bush Speaks 43 This old warrior was a ‘moruti’, a teacher of religion. 1968 A. Fulton Dark Side of Mercy 28 The moruti, the priest who had baptised him, had poured scorn on the power of the Ngaka, deriding the magic of the medicine horn. 2000 Weekly Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) (Electronic ed.) 11 Aug. You mean the white moruti..who lives in Soweto? This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1866 |
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