caerĭmōnĭa | cērĭ-, ii | caerĭmōnĭum (noun F.n) : (; scanned cĕrīmōnĭa, Prud. c. Symm. praef. 1, 5), , f. (collat. form , , n., Gloss. Lat. pp. 50, 69 Hild.; Inscr. Orell. 3188) [kindr. with Sanscr. root kri, = facere; cf. also creo. cerus, Ceres. strictly sacred work, divine rite; cf. Bopp, Gloss. p. 79, a; Pott, I. p. 219; Mommsen, Unterit. Dial.]
* The sacred. the divine, that which has reference to the Deity (in class. prose)
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* Objectively, sacredness, sanctity (in this sense rare, and only in sing.): sanctitas regum, et caerimonia deorum. Caes. ap. Suet. Caes. 6: legationis. Cic. Rosc. Am. 39, 113; Tac. A. 4, 64 fin.: 3, 61: loci. id. ib. 14, 22 fin.
* Meton. (abstr. pro concr.), a religious usage, a sacred rite, religious ceremony (while ritus designates both religious and profane rites: so esp. freq. in the histt. and mostly in plur.): Ceres et Libera. quarum sacra... longe maximis atque occultissimis caerimoniis continentur. Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 72, § 187: religiones vero caerimoniaeque omnium sacrorum fanorumque violatae. id. ib. 2. 1. 3. § 7: in sacerdotio caerimoniisque diligentissimus. id. Rab. Perd. 10, 27: sepulcrorum,id. Tusc. 1, 12, 27: caelestes. Liv 1, 20, 4 and 7' polluere. id. 6, 41, 9; Tac. H. 1, 2; Suet. Caes. 74: fetiales. Liv. 9, 11, 8: auspiciaque,id. 22, 9, 7; Flor. 1, 2, 2: novae,Tac. A. 1, 54: vetustissimae. id. ib. 1. 62: deorum,id. ib. 3, 60; 16, 28; publicae,id. H. 2, 91; Suet. Caes. 6: an tiquae. id. Aug. 31: peregrinae, veteres ac praeceptae,id. ib. 93: externae,id. Tib. 36. —In sing.: collatis militaribus signis, quo more eorum gravissima caerimonia continetur,Caes. B. G. 7, 2; Suet. Aug. 94 med.

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