Apparently through all traditional time their cultus has been the rudest and most primitive form of nature-worship, the attaching of. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
In the cultus of Apollo, music formed a distinguishing feature. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
It presents to man the only cultus which can have universal adaptation. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference
Mexicans the honorific title of an aboriginal "cultus-hero," -- is that of. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference
The word "cult" (Latin cultus, literally care) is related to the word "cultivation.". From Wordnik.com. [Valerie Tarico: Christian Belief Through The Lens of Cognitive Science, Part 1 of 6] Reference
Videndum quae vestes, quis cultus, te deceat, quis in usu sit, utrum latus barbae, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
Rowley 'had a high sense of romance and a secret cultus for all soldiers and criminals. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Again it could also be cultus ferox as they use the same instrument if so then check Tamfanae. From Wordnik.com. [Day 3: Filming at Doune Castle] Reference
Surely the devotees of the Golf-cultus, the lovers of the Links, will be down like a "driver" upon Dr. WILSON. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 19, 1891] Reference
Did you know that "cult" is from the Latin cultus, from the verb incolere, meaning to inhabit or care for a place?. From Wordnik.com. [A Darker Place]
And by this striking link of the cultus of the dead the ancient Etruscans were connected with the present inhabitants of. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
This apocalyptic program involved a reformation of the sacerdotal aris - tocracy that controlled the cultus of the Temple at. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
But that in turn meant that the response to the anti-icon movement had to be elaborated in terms of the rationale of the cultus. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Academy of Arts Byzantium Lecture 'Icons and the Practice of Prayer'] Reference
The faiths of all the Teutonic races were of the sternest character, and it was such a cultus that made them the terror of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference
The argument over iconoclasm versus the veneration of icons was about the cultus of icons not just the rationale of icon painting. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Academy of Arts Byzantium Lecture 'Icons and the Practice of Prayer'] Reference
Rousseau's Savoyard Vicar was perfectly willing to accept the cultus of Christianity, even when he had ceased to accept its dogma. From Wordnik.com. [Voltaire] Reference
And when they became less important in cultus they survived in poetry, and served greatly to temper the harsh prose of actual life. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Aryanism, and the stiff cultus of Brahmanism, but there is also a large infusion of the original superstitions of the Dravidians, Kohls. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference
This would account for the cultus at Sicca, in Numidia. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
Sacerdos candida veste cultus arborem scandit, falce aurea demetit; candido id excipitur sago. From Wordnik.com. [Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities] Reference
David would later take on priestly attributes, such as wearing a priestly ephod and modifying the Temple cultus. From Wordnik.com. [Canterbury Tales by Taylor Marshall] Reference
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