These moieties are what is technically called ‘exogamous’, i.
These, it may be noted incidentally, would belong to the same division if the moieties of the Omaha were at one time exogamous, for which there is some evidence.
Exogamous kin groups occur both in southern Africa and in many sections of America from which exogamous moieties have never been reported.
For example, Tylor reduced the institution of cross-cousin marriage to the principle of exogamous moieties by assuming the wider significance.
If so, we have another source of variation in the relative proportion of hemi- and anti-moieties in the deuteroproteoses and peptones of pancreatic digestion.
All other and profounder processes are not total in character, nor metatypes of a whole system, but onlymoieties thereof.
But the elemental bodies are chemically non-decomposible, because they are already separate, being moieties or fractions.
After the bisection two of these magical totem groups, say Eagle-Hawk and Crow, were selected, shall we guess, to give names to the two moieties or phratries?
Are the groups and kindreds commonly styled 'totemic' earlier or later than the division into a pair of moieties or 'phratries'?
The latter contains the proximal moieties of the zooids and numerous but separate spicules.
It owes its commercial value to the beauty of its hard red calcareous axis which in life is covered by a cortex in which the proximal moieties of the zooids are imbedded.
If they approve, they declare the supernatural message "to the assembled headmen at one of the ceremonial meetings," the tribe obeys, and divides itself into the two primary exogamous moieties or phratries.
The organisation of the more primitive tribes presents only the two exogamous moieties or phratries in each tribe and the totem kins in the phratries.
The exogamous moieties of a tribe (phratries) are not the result of a reformatory legislative bisection of the tribe, but of the existence of "two intermarrying totem clan groups.
For example, suppose a tribe in which the two moieties were named Brown and Smith.
Her tribe, with its two moieties or classes, may have six totems in each.
Of the particular Huxleian doctrine which we are considering, the two moieties are absolutely irreconcileable; so that on the assumption that either moiety were true, the truth of that moiety would be decisive against the other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moieties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
