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cult  (klt)
n.
1.
a. A religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader.
b. The followers of such a religion or sect.
2. A system or community of religious worship and ritual.
3. The formal means of expressing religious reverence; religious ceremony and ritual.
4. A usually nonscientific method or regimen claimed by its originator to have exclusive or exceptional power in curing a particular disease.
5.
a. Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person, principle, or thing.
b. The object of such devotion.
6. An exclusive group of persons sharing an esoteric, usually artistic or intellectual interest.

[Latin cultus, worship, from past participle of colere, to cultivate; see kwel-1 in Indo-European roots.]

cultic, cultish adj.
cultism n.
cultist n.

cultic [ˈkʌltɪk]
adj
(Christian Religious Writings / Theology) of or relating to a religious cult


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In Part Three of this four part volume, Fishwick treats two separate issues in each half of the book: evidence of provincial centers in the provincial cult, and the shape of cultic practices.
The elite, therefore, were often designated by participation in cultic rituals as "righteous" and "holy" to the exclusion of the non-elite.
is the expression of elemental passions, and at rock festivals it assumes a cultic character, a form of worship, in fact, in opposition to Christian worship.
 
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