Warrior vs Semese - What's the difference?
warrior | semese |
A person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant.
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(lb) A person who is aggressively, courageously, or energetically involved in an activity, such as athletics.
(rare) Half-eaten.
* 1859 : Frederic William Farrar, Julian Home: A Tale of College Life , chapter VII: “The Scorn of Scorn”,
* 1903 June 6, Dean Farrar as Headmaster, published in The Living Age , 7th series, volume XIX (from the beginning, volume CCXXXVII), number 3074:
A member of the warrior caste of the Elema of Papua New Guinea.
* 2009 : Arthur James Todd, The Primitive Family as an Educational Agency ,
As nouns the difference between warrior and semese
is that warrior is a person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant while semese is a member of the warrior caste of the Elema of Papua New Guinea.As an adjective semese is
half-eaten.warrior
English
Alternative forms
* warriour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia warrior)- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior ; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
Derived terms
* bloody warrior * warriorhoodReferences
* *semese
English
Etymology 1
From the (etyl) .Adjective
(-)page 89(1866 publication)
- “Ha, ha, ha!” said Bruce. “No; they’re sons of gyps and that kind of thing, who feed on the semese fragments of the high table.”
- But what was my indignation, vexation and shame when I discovered them greedily engaged in ravenously devouring the semese fragments of a barbaric repast.
References
* “se?mese, a.'']” listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989
Etymology 2
Noun
(semese)page 208
- During this period they meet the semese''''' or fighting men of the tribe, “from whom they receive every incentive to become warriors.” Finally there are certain endurance tests that each ''heapu'' must pass before he is considered eligible to become a '''''semese'''''. “Of these the most important tests are, chewing ''upe'' (the root of the ginger plant), and drinking the urine of the '''''semese''''' chief.” The wind-up of the whole affair is the feast at which the ''heapu'' at last becomes a full-fledged '''''semese and is entrusted with its mysteries; but this mystery feast is really an anticlimax and frequently disappoints the candidates.