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PUBERTY (Lat. pubertas, from pubes, puber, mature, adult)

PUBERTY (See also:
LAT
Lat. pubertas, from pubes, puber, mature, adult) , that See also:

period of See also:

LIFE

life at which the generative See also:

ORGANS

organs in both sexes become functionally active (see REPRODUCTIVE See also:

SYSTEM

SYSTEM). In See also:

NORTHERN

northern countries See also:

MALES

males enter upon sexual maturity between fourteen and sixteen, sometimes not much before the eighteenth See also:

YEAR

year, See also:

FEMALES

females between twelve and fourteen. In tropical climates puberty is much earlier. In See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

COMMON

common See also:

law the See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of puberty is conclusively presumed to be fourteen in the male and twelve in the See also:

FEMALE

female. Puberty is of much ethnological See also:

INTEREST

interest, as being the occasion among many races for feasts and religious ceremonies. In See also:

Rome a feast was given to the See also:

FAMILY

family and See also:

friends: the See also:

HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair of boys was cut See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short, a See also:

lock being thrown into the See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

APOLLO (Gr. 'A2r6XXwv,'Airkkhwv)

Apollo, and one into See also:

WATER

water as an offering to See also:

Neptune. Girls offered their dolls to See also:

VENUS

Venus, and the bulla—a little locket of See also:

gold worn See also:

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round See also:

CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children's necks, often by boys as well as girls—was taken off and dedicated in the See also:

case of the former to See also:

Hercules or the See also:

HOUSEHOLD, ROYAL

household See also:

LARES (older form Lases)

lares, in the case of the latter to See also:

JUNO

Juno. The attainment of puberty is celebrated by savages with ceremonies some of which seem to be directly associated with See also:

TOTEMISM

totemism. The Australian See also:

RITES

rites of See also:

INITIATION (Lat. inilium, beginning, entrance, from mire, to go in)

initiation include the raising of those scars on the bodies of clansmen or clanswomen which serve as tribal badges or actually depict the totem. Among many See also:

savage peoples lads at puberty undergo a pretence of being killed and brought to life again.

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