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Definition of cultus in English: cultusnoun 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: cultusnounˈkəltəs 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). |