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  • Asperum cultum et vitiosum caput, negligentiorem barbam, indictum argento odium, cubile humi positum, et quicquid ad laudem perversa via sequitur evita.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • St. Thomas, Contra impugnantes Dei cultum et religionem

    The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997

  • Circa cultum adeo pudendum, ut coman semper in gradus formatam peregrinatione achaica, etiam pene verticem sumpserit, So very finical in his dress, that he wore his hair in the Greek fashion, curled in rows almost to the crown of his head.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • Ubi cum libenter habitarem non solum propter cultum aedicularum, sed etiam propter hospitis formosissimum filium, excogitavi rationem, qua non essem patri familiae suspectus amator.

    The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • Though the contents of the letters are familiar to everyone, their connection with travel for "cultum animi" has hitherto, I think, been overlooked.

    English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard

  • Deus, qui illam partem sacræ paginæ ad solennem Dei cultum pertinentem, psalmos scilicet, et hymnos: cæteraque ejusmodi perpetuis ecclesiæ usibus inservitura, transmitterent hominibus, et auctoritatem quandam conciliarent.

    Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

  • _, 'Ob quod puerili mutato in senatorium cultum et in notitiam Caesaris Neronis facile pervenit et honore vixdum aetati debito dignus iudicatus est.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Maritima quoque domestica gens est, et culta, fida, patiens, et urbana; vestitu siquidem honesta, civilis atque pacifica; circa cultum divinum devota, sed et obviandis hostium injuriis semper prona.

    An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

  • Hence St. Thomas (II-II, Q. lxxxi, a. 1) defines religion as "virtus per quam homines Deo debitum cultum et reverentiam exhibent" (the virtue which prompts man to render to God the worship and reverence that is His by right).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • Cardinalium Dignitatem et authoritatem; Sanctos ipsos, eorum cultum, Reliquias, Acta et

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

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