[f. BRAHMIN + -ISM.] The principles and practice of the Brahmins.
1816. G. S. Faber, Orig. Pagan Idol., I. 86. I shall in future use the terms Buddhism and Brahmenism.
1846. Maurice, Relig. World, I. ii. (1861), 54. Hindoo patriots … have dreamed of bringing back the first state of Brahminism.
1877. trans. Tiele’s Hist. Relig., 118. The Vedic religion gives birth to Brâhmanism.
Hence Brahminist, -manist; Brahministic a.; Brahminize v.
1816. G. S. Faber, Orig. Pagan Idol., I. 124. The doctrine of a succession of worlds is held no less decidedly by the Buddhists than by the Brahmenists.
1862. R. Patterson, Ess. Hist. & Art, 427. The Brahminised Tamul race in the south.
1883. Monier Williams, Relig. Thought in Ind., ii. 42. They proceeded to Brahmanize the popular songs of the people.
1886. N. Y. Forum, March, 42. Sometimes this Brahministic baptism was performed by the bank of a sacred river.
