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arti

British  
/ 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

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

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

See on this subject the article of A. E. Martini in Atti della R. Academia di archeologia, lettere e belle arti, vol. xx.,

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander

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