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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

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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

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

To satirize one country by creating another in its image, derisively affecting the same government, society, institutions, is an arti fice which many great men have honored.

From Time Magazine Archive

He wrote Neutonianismo per le donne; Saggi sopra le belle arti, his principal work on art; poems, letters, &c.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various

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