Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A religious society of the Ojibwa Indians, the members of which are imagined to have the power to converse with spirits and, after death, to reach the land of the spirits. See
mide .
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Examples
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The midewiwin Henry Meloux beat the mitigwakik, the Mide drum, and spoke to the spirit of Wendell Two Knives, guiding him on the Path of Souls, cautioning him against the dangers and distractions on his way west to the Land of Souls.
BOUNDARY WATERS WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2003
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The old midewiwin understood a kind of law Jo appreciated more and more all the time, a law for which nothing was written and no courts existed.
BOUNDARY WATERS WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2003
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The old midewiwin understood a kind of law Jo appreciated more and more all the time, a law for which nothing was written and no courts existed.
BOUNDARY WATERS WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2003
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The old midewiwin understood a kind of law Jo appreciated more and more all the time, a law for which nothing was written and no courts existed.
BOUNDARY WATERS WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2003
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The midewiwin Henry Meloux beat the mitigwakik, the Mide drum, and spoke to the spirit of Wendell Two Knives, guiding him on the Path of Souls, cautioning him against the dangers and distractions on his way west to the Land of Souls.
BOUNDARY WATERS WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2003
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The old midewiwin exhaled a flourish of smoke and watched it rise to the ceiling.
BOUNDARY WATERS WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2003
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The midewiwin Henry Meloux beat the mitigwakik, the Mide drum, and spoke to the spirit of Wendell Two Knives, guiding him on the Path of Souls, cautioning him against the dangers and distractions on his way west to the Land of Souls.
BOUNDARY WATERS WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2003
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The old midewiwin exhaled a flourish of smoke and watched it rise to the ceiling.
BOUNDARY WATERS WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2003
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The old midewiwin exhaled a flourish of smoke and watched it rise to the ceiling.
BOUNDARY WATERS WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2003
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He was a mide, one of the midewiwin, a member of the Grand Medicine Society.
PURGATORY RIDGE WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2001
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