cultism (kultizm)

[ The cultism of Góngora, the artifice of which lies solely in the choice and arrangement of words. cultist (kul'tist), n. Encyc. Brit., XXII. 360. [ Sp. cultero, culter a no, an affected purist.] One of a school of Spanish poets who imitated the pedantic affectation and labored elegance of Góngora y Argote, a Spanish writer (1561-1627). A century earlier the school of the cultists had estab lished a dominion, ephemeral, as it soon appeared, but absolute while it lasted. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 391. cultivable (kul'ti-va-bl), a. [= F. cultivable = Sp. cultivable = Pg. cultivavel = It. coltivabile, The or le proJ. R. Nichols, Fireside Science, p. 131. Ful thinne it [hair) lay, by culpons on and oon. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. Т., 1. 679. Beauty is, even in the beautiful, occasional - or, as one has said, culminating and perfect only a single moment, 2. Something split off; a splinter. before which it is unripe, and after which it is on the wane. Emerson, Domestic Life. Culminating cycle. See cycle . culmination (kul-mi-nā'shon), n. [F. culm i- To hakke and he we The okes olde, and leye hem on a rewe In culpons wel arrayed for to brenne. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 2009. = ção = It. culm in azione, the meridian; the attainment by a star of its highest or lowest altitude on any day.-2. The highest point or summit; the top; the act or fact of reaching the highest point: used especially in figurative senses. We wonder how that which in its putting forth was a flower should in its growth and culmination become a thistle. Farindon, Sermons, p. 429. Lower or upper culmination, the attainment by a star of its lowest or highest altitude on any day. culm in i corn (kul-min'i-kôrn), n. [ The culm in i corn is transversely broad and rounded. Coues , Proc. Phila. Acad., 1866, p. 175. culmy (kul'mi), a. and n. Same as col my. culot (kū'lō), n. [F.,