a. [f. prec. + -IC.] Of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resembling fetishism.
1867. Lewes, Hist. Philos., I. p. xlii. Suppose one of the travellers to be uncultivated, and still in the fetichistic stage, he will at once conclude from his conjecture that the clock is a fetich, and is inhabited by a good or evil Spirit.
1868. Fiske, The Laws of History, in Fortnt. Rev., IV. 295. It is the primitive fetichistic habit of thought, however modified by scientific training, which furtively leads the mind to consider volition as supplying the nexus between cause and effect, and to interpret the harmonies and correspondences in nature as the results of contrivance and the indications of purpose.
1877. E. R. Conder, The Basis of Faith, i. 5. He acquired as he went, with the rudiments of reason and the glimmerings of morality, some germs of fetishistic religion.
