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arti

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/ ˈʌrtɪ /

noun

  1. Hinduism a ritual performed in homes and temples in which incense and light is offered to a deity

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of arti

Hindi


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During arti, you stood in front of the gods and offered them light, clutching a silver plate holding ghee-drenched cotton ball flames and marigolds.

From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2022

Clinton was also photographed performing an arti, a Hindu custom in which a plate of flowers and burnt camphor is offered to a deity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2018

For all the painstaking care he puts into the pictures he takes, Dr. Jacob Gershon-Cohen could be one of the arti est of arty photographers.

From Time Magazine Archive

But there is no arti ficial liver comparable to the artificial kidney, and there is no hope of devising one soon, because the liver's multiple tasks are even more complex than the kidneys'.

From Time Magazine Archive

More practical, may we not say, than this imitation of the Florentine arti of the Middle Ages was the Working Men's College, founded in London in the fifties by that other earnest Christian Socialist, F.D.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents by John Lord

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