Look up: lituus

1. Lituus
   A curved wand used by an augur. The augur would use the lituus to mark out the divisions of the sky in which he would make his observations. Sometimes shown on Roman coins together with other implements of the priestly colleges such as a jug, a knife, a sprinkler, and a simpulum. The plural is 'litui.'
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2. lituus
   The long J-shaped trumpet. A slender bronze tube, approximately 5 feet long, which curves upward at its end to form a bell. It was used for religious purposes, such as for leading funeral processions. It was thought it was also used by the cavalry to signal orders.
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3. Lituus
   Lit'u·us noun ; plural Litui . [ Latin ] 1. (Rom. Antig.) (a) A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens. (b) An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved fo...
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4. lituus
   1. A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens. An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note. ... 2. <mathematics> A spiral whose polar equation is r^2<theta/ = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies invers...
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5. Lituus
   • (n.) An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note. • (n.) A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens. • (n.) A spiral whose polar equation is r2/ = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely ...
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6. lituus
   (from the article `wind instrument`) Another Roman trumpet was the lituus, a J-shaped instrument whose immediate origin was also Etruscan. Its inspiration, visible in its earliest ...
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7. Lituus
   The word `lituus` originally meant a curved augural staff (cp. "crozier") or a curved war-trumpet in the ancient Latin language. In English it is used with several meanings. Roman ritual wand: The lituus was a crooked wand (similar in shape to the top part of a crosier) used ...
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