Cultus

[Lisa M Peppan]

*My* understadning of the word is that it is the last word in useless, in
the sense that to call something useless means that . . .
a) it once had a use
b) it may someday have a use
but to call something "cultus" means that not only does it have no use
now but it never had or will have a use.

Lisa

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 Theresa Kishkan <tkishkan at UNISERVE.COM> writes:

> A friend, writing a book on the Sinixt, has asked me to post this
> query.

>> [...]I have had a response to my ms on the Sinixt from
>> Bouchard; he offers that "cultus" means "bad."
>> Glavin/Lillard's lexicon says "worthless."  I suppose the
>> connotation could be very close, but do those in the
>> know have any comments?