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- noun Dated form of
Shintoist .
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That Japanese Bonze, with a yellow robe and naked head, preaches the eternity of souls, and their successive transmigrations into various bodies; near him, the Sintoist denies that souls can exist separate from the senses, ** and maintains that they are only the effect of the organs to which they belong, and with which they must perish, as the sound of the flute perishes with the flute.
The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788
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