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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 521 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSS , in the See also:

pidgin-See also:English of the See also:Chinese seaports, the name given to idols and deities. It is used adjectivally in regard to 1 A See also:prefect of See also:Jerusalem of this name is mentioned by See also:Josephus, .See also:Bell. U. 20 imany things connected with religious See also:rites, such as " joss-See also:house," a See also:temple; " joss-stick," a stick which when burned gives forth a fragrant odour and is used as See also:incense; " joss-See also:paper," paper cut to resemble See also:money (and sometimes with prayers written upon it) burned in funeral and other ceremonies. " Joss " is not a Chinese word, and is probably a corruption of See also:Port. deos, See also:god, applied by Portuguese navigators in the 16th See also:century to the idols worshipped in the See also:East Indies. The Dutch See also:form is joosge (diminutive of joos), whence the Javanese dejos, and the English yos, later joss. The word seems to have been carried to See also:China by English See also:seamen from See also:Batavia.

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