单词 | sivaite |
释义 | Sivaiten.adj. A. n. A person who specially worships Shiva; an adherent of Sivaism. (Cf. Sivite at Forms.) Cf. Saivite n. at Saiva n. and adj. Derivatives. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Hinduism > Hindu sects and groups > [noun] > Sivaism > person Saiva1810 Saivite1867 Sivaite1875 1875 Church Missionary Intelligencer Sept. 259 In the northern districts the Sivaites are in the minority;..while in the south the Sivaites constitute the major portion of the Hindu population. 1882 Missionary Herald (Cambridge, Mass.) Feb. 68 Considerable opposition displayed by the Sivites. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 185/1 The Sivaites are most numerous in the extreme south and on the west coast. 1962 A. Huxley Island vi. 82 We're still Buddhists or Shivaites. B. adj. That worships Shiva; of or relating to Sivaism. ΚΠ 1880 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 815/2 Sankara Acharya, the great Sivaite reformer of the 8th century. 1892 Missionary Herald (Boston) Sept. 369 They answered that they were Sivite boys, and could not say Christian prayers. 1958 A. Huxley Let. 22 June (1969) 850 The process of turning old Shivaite-cum-Mahayana-Buddhist society into something combining the best features of East and West was inaugurated in the eighteen-forties by a Scottish surgeon. 1970 Guardian 10 Aug. 9/4 A 1,000-year-old shivaite temple..on the border between Cambodia and Thailand. Derivatives Sivaˈitic adj. ΚΠ 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Sivaitic. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.adj.1875 |
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