Cursus is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Cursus in a sentence
Cursus meaning
- A course; a journey or progression.
- A long ditch or trench of unknown function, constructed in Neolithic Britain and Ireland.
- A racecourse.
Using Cursus
- The main meaning on this page is: A course; a journey or progression. | A long ditch or trench of unknown function, constructed in Neolithic Britain and Ireland. | A racecourse.
- In the example corpus, cursus often appears in combinations such as: the cursus, cursus honorum.
Context around Cursus
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cursus
- In this selection, "cursus" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, dorset, honorum, track and mathematicus stand out and add context to how "cursus" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include in the cursus honorum was and co brouwerïj cursus kĕmē new. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cursus" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cursus
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In the 1644 edition of his Cursus mathematicus, Pierre Hérigone used the spelling parallelepipedum. (14 words)
It was the lowest ranking position in the cursus honorum main (course of offices). (14 words)
While part of the cursus honorum, this step was optional and not required to hold future offices. (17 words)
Subdeacons assisted the deacons, but unlike them were allowed to marry after ordination; consequently many clerics stopped the cursus honorum at this point, and it was not unusual for a subdeacon to be elected bishop; and even Pope. (38 words)
This area has many other earthworks and erected stone monuments from the Neolithic and Early Bronze periods, including the Dorset Cursus, an earthwork 10 km. long and 100 m. wide, which was oriented to the midwinter sunset. (37 words)
Bishops Bishops were at the head of the local church; but not explicitly within the cursus honorum, as appointment was by election from the local clergy and people. (28 words)
Example sentences (16)
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According to team leader Vince Gaffney, this discovery may provide a direct link between the rituals and astronomical events to activities within the Cursus at Stonehenge.
Also included in the discovery is that the cursus track is terminated by two five-meter wide extremely deep pits, citation whose purpose is still a mystery.
Birley (1999), p. 39. Membership of the senatorial order was a prerequisite to attain positions within the cursus honorum and to gain entry into the Roman Senate.
Bishops Bishops were at the head of the local church; but not explicitly within the cursus honorum, as appointment was by election from the local clergy and people.
Censor main After a term as consul, the final step in the Cursus Honorum was the office of censor.
In the 1644 edition of his Cursus mathematicus, Pierre Hérigone used the spelling parallelepipedum.
It was not a compulsory part of the cursus, and hence a former quaestor could be elected to the praetorship without having held the position of aedile.
It was the lowest ranking position in the cursus honorum main (course of offices).
Once elected as quaestor, a Roman man earned the right to sit in the Senate and began progressing through the cursus honorum main.
Organized at the time of Augustus Caesar (62 BC–AD 14), the service was called cursus publicus and was provided with light carriages (rhedæ) pulled by fast horses.
Princeps senatus main Another office not officially a step in the cursus honorum was the princeps senatus, an extremely prestigious office for a patrician.
Subdeacons assisted the deacons, but unlike them were allowed to marry after ordination; consequently many clerics stopped the cursus honorum at this point, and it was not unusual for a subdeacon to be elected bishop; and even Pope.
Their transportation service was the cursus clabularis, after the standard wagon, called a carrus clabularius, clabularis, clavularis, or clabulare.
This area has many other earthworks and erected stone monuments from the Neolithic and Early Bronze periods, including the Dorset Cursus, an earthwork 10 km. long and 100 m. wide, which was oriented to the midwinter sunset.
While part of the cursus honorum, this step was optional and not required to hold future offices.
Common combinations with cursus
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: