- (a.) Set apart or sacred by religious custom among certain races of Polynesia, New Zealand, etc., and forbidden to certain persons or uses; hence, prohibited under severe penalties; interdicted; as, food, places, words, customs, etc., may be taboo.
- (v.t.) To put under taboo; to forbid or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals.
- (n.) A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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