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单词 cultus
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Definition of cultus in English:

cultus

noun ˈkʌltəsˈkəltəs
technical
  • A system or variety of religious worship.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was looking in the right direction - cultus - even if his own search ended in disappointment.
    • Each of these nuclei soon gathers a cultus, with the neighbourhood devising elaborate festivities and observances around it.
    • But nevertheless, we note that the new cultus was threatening to eliminate the profitable pilgrimages to the pagan shrine.
    • Perhaps there is also a reference here to the ‘heave-offering’ of the ancient sacrificial cultus.
    • Mohammed is noted to have hated onions and garlic, and as he was purported to revamp the calendar to a lunar one, we remark that in the cultus of vegetation, worship was paid to onions and garlic, because of their shape, as emblems of the Sun.

Origin

Mid 19th century: Latin (see cult).

 
 

Definition of cultus in US English:

cultus

nounˈkəltəs
technical
  • A system or variety of religious worship.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was looking in the right direction - cultus - even if his own search ended in disappointment.
    • Mohammed is noted to have hated onions and garlic, and as he was purported to revamp the calendar to a lunar one, we remark that in the cultus of vegetation, worship was paid to onions and garlic, because of their shape, as emblems of the Sun.
    • Perhaps there is also a reference here to the ‘heave-offering’ of the ancient sacrificial cultus.
    • But nevertheless, we note that the new cultus was threatening to eliminate the profitable pilgrimages to the pagan shrine.
    • Each of these nuclei soon gathers a cultus, with the neighbourhood devising elaborate festivities and observances around it.

Origin

Mid 19th century: Latin (see cult).

 
 
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