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yogi(n.)

"Hindu ascetic and mendicant practicing the system of yoga combining meditation and austerity," 1610s, from Hindi yogi, from Sanskrit yoga- (see yoga). Related: Yogism "doctrine and practice of yogis" (1893); from 1887 as yogeeism.

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yoga(n.)

branch of Hindu religious philosophy, 1820, yogu, from Hindi yoga, from Sanskrit yoga-s, literally "union, yoking" (with the Supreme Spirit), from PIE root *yeug- "to join." Among its doctrines it advances a system of integration with the universal spirit through meditation while keeping the body in certain unnatural positions. Related: Yogic.

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