totemist

[ toh-tuh-mist ]

noun

1. a member of a clan, family, or group distinguished by a totem.

Word History and Origins

Origin of totemist¹

First recorded in 1880–85; totem + -ist

Example Sentences

Examples of their wild myths have already been offered, they are totemists, too, and fear, though they do not propitiate, ghosts.

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In Rome we do find traces of exogamy, as among totemists. 

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They would doubtless have maintained that the cow was Gladstone’s totem, or family crest, and that, like other totemists, he was forbidden to eat beef.

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For a nagual, as I have shown, is one thing and a totem is another; nor am I aware that Zulus are totemists. 

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I am not at all bigoted in the opinion that the Greeks may have once been totemists. 

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