vondsirat

Same as vansire. Flacourt, 1661. Von Graefe's operation for cataract.' See operation. (the Von Patera proce . See proce . voodoo (vö-dö'), n. and a. [Also voudou; ts, charms, witch superstitions and cus toms; especially, one who makes such practices a busine . The unprotected little widow should have had a very serious errand to bring her to the voudou's house. G. W. Cable, Grandi imes, p. 90. Every one has read of the noisy antics employed by the medicine-men among the Indians, and by the fetich-doctors and voodoos among the negroes, for driving diseases out of their patients. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXXIV. 803. 2. The same title transferred by voodoos to a personal evil spirit supreme among evil powers. But for the small leaven of more intelligent whites, the black people would soon be victims of voudoo. Indeed, it is hard to find a rural community in the South where that dreadful bugbear is not more or le believed in and feared. Pop . Sci . Mo. , XXVI. 44. 3. pl. The practicers of voodoo rites as a col lective body. II. a. Pertaining to or a ociated with the superstitions and peculiar practices of the voodoos: as, a voodoo dance (a violent indecent dance belonging to the secret nocturnal ceremonies of the voodoos); a voodoo doctor, or voo doo priest (the terms most commonly used in creole countries for any profe ional voodoo); voodoo king or queen (the person who, by a certain vague election and tenure, holds for life a local preeminence and some slight authority over all voodoos of the surrounding country). voodoo (vö-dö'), v. t. [Also voudou; What was the matter with her head, anyhow? She New Princeton Rev., I. 106. must be voudoued. The negroes [of Louisiana] took a dislike to the overseer, and sent to the city for a conjuror to come down and voodoo him. The conjuror undertook to rid them of the overseer for $30, but finally came down in his demand to $2.50. The Century , XXXV. 112. voodooism (vö-döʻizm), n. [Also voudouism ; voodoo +-ism.] The voodoo superstitions and practices. In the main these are only such fantastical IMG:content-1955.png:[blocks in formation] He ate food with what might almost be termed voracity . Hawthorne, Seven Gables, vii. =Syn. Avidity, ravenousne . See rapacious .