| 单词 | cult ritual |
| 释义 | > as lemmascult ritual a. Chiefly Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology. In sense 2a, as cult object, cult practice, cult ritual, etc. ΚΠ 1883 L. M. Mitchell Hist. Anc. Sculpt. iii. 52 In the Egyptian temple, there was no central cult statue of the god, as in the temples of the Greeks. 1896 L. R. Farnell Cults Greek States II. xiii. 438 The Arcadian myth of Callisto, which we may believe to be based on certain ancient cult-practices. 1906 D. G. Hogarth in Proc. Brit. Acad. 1905–6 375 Small objects dedicated in that temple, among which are several cult-figurines of the Goddess. a1930 D. H. Lawrence Apocalypse (1931) vii. 117 Cult-lore was the wisdom of the old races. 1950 H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments vi. 349 The earliest cult-image of the goddess. 1957 Antiquity & Survival 2 167/1 Near it a cult mask, made of clay, was still lying on the floor... In a further room, we discovered a unique cult-standard. 1991 A. Unterman Dict. Jewish Lore & Legend 22/2 The use of oil to anoint a person or a cult-object indicated that it had entered into a new status and was brought under special divine guidance. 2010 M. Gagarin & E. Fantham Oxf. Encycl. Anc. Greece & Rome 130/2 In cult ritual a number of different animals were sacrificed to Aphrodite. < as lemmas |
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