Cult



GRE 蓝宝

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 宗派; 崇拜
• ［英］ n. 宗派 ( a system of religious worship) ; 崇拜 ( devotion to a person or principle)
• ［记］ 主要考第二义
• ［例］ ancient tribal cult. / the leadership cul

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Usage: often attributive
• Etymology: French & Latin; French culte, from Latin cultus care, adoration, from colere to cultivate — more at wheel
• Date: 1617
• 1. formal religious veneration ; worship
• 2. a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also its body of adherents
• 3. a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also its body of adherents
• 4. a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator <health cults
• 5.
  • a. great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad
  • b. the object of such devotion
  • c. a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion
• ? cultic adjective
• ? cultish adjective
• ? cultishly adverb
• ? cultishness noun
• ? cultism noun
• ? cultist noun
• ? cultlike adjective

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