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cultus

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Searchable Lemmata: cultus (L).
Alternate Forms: cultum, cultibus.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Garment; style of dress (in AntG1 4); adornment, costume; refinement, culture, similar in meaning to secta, vestment and livery.(circa 1000 - 1136)
1. Cultus : reaf [DOE AntGl 4 (Kindschi) (0769 (769))]
2. quum ... plena domus discumbentium purpureis vel aureis cultibus exultaret Biblical/Hagiographic. [DMLBS GOSC. (Mir. Iv. lxii) ante 1108]
3. cultum joculatoris cum cythara cepit Historic. [DMLBS G. MON. (IX I) 1136]
c.f.: reaf
L.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
2(n.) Garment; various other general and extended meanings: cultivation; crops; a document (c. 955, 12th-C text); religion, observance, cult; worship.(circa 955 - circa 1300)
L.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Classical L.
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