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‖ cultus|ˈkʌltəs|
[a. L. cultus (u- stem) cultivation, tending, culture, adoration, f. ppl. stem of colĕre: see cult.]
†1. Worship; = cult n. 1. Obs.
1640Canterb. Self-Convict. 49 To give to it [the altar] any religious worship, any cultus..any adoration, they do detest it, as palpable idolatrie.
2. An organized system of religious worship or ceremonial; also transf.; = cult n. 2, 3.
1838Emerson Addr. Cambridge, Mass. Wks. (Bohn) II. 194 As the Cultus, or established worship of the civilized world, it has great historical interest. 1846De Quincey Christianity as Org. Pol. Movem. Wks. XII. 253 There was a cultus, or ceremonial worship: that constituted the sum-total of religion in the idea of a Pagan. 1865Pusey Truth Eng. Ch. 181 That portion of the Roman Church, which is most devoted to the cultus of the Blessed Virgin. |