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 cult [kʌlt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 膜拜, 礼拜式, 祭仪, 一群信徒

[医] 迷信, 巫术


  1. Her books aren't bestsellers, but they have a certain cult following.
    她的书算不上畅销书，但有一定的崇拜者。
  2. His music has become something of a cult.
    他的音乐已经成为一种时尚。
  3. One who prepares candidates for initiation into a mystery cult.
    引人入秘教者为加入神秘教会的教徒准备候选人的人


cult
[ noun ]
  1. followers of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices

    2. <noun.group>
  2. an interest followed with exaggerated zeal

    3. <noun.cognition>
    he always follows the latest fads
    it was all the rage that season
  3. followers of an unorthodox, extremist, or false religion or sect who often live outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader

    4. <noun.group>
  4. a religion or sect that is generally considered to be unorthodox, extremist, or false

    5. <noun.cognition>
    it was a satanic cult
  5. a system of religious beliefs and rituals

    6. <noun.cognition>
    devoted to the cultus of the Blessed Virgin


Cult \Cult\ (k[u^]lt) n. [F. culte, L. cultus care, culture, fr.
colere to cultivate. Cf. {Cultus}.]
1. Attentive care; homage; worship.

Every one is convinced of the reality of a better
self, and of the cult or homage which is due to it.
--Shaftesbury.

2. A system of religious belief and worship.

That which was the religion of Moses is the
ceremonial or cult of the religion of Christ.
--Coleridge.

3. A system of intense religious veneration of a particular
person, idea, or object, especially one considered
spurious or irrational by traditional religious bodies;
as, the Moonie cult.
[PJC]

4. The group of individuals who adhere to a cult (senses 2 or
3).
[PJC]

5. A strong devotion or interest in a particular person, idea
or thing without religious associations, or the people
holding such an interest; as, the cult of James Dean; the
cult of personality in totalitarian societies.
[PJC]

  1. He established close ties with the leftist government of the late President Forbes Burnham and incurred the wrath of opposition parties, which accused the cult of breaking up strikes and political meetings.
  2. The movie still has a strong cult following.
  3. The woman called the "godmother" of a drug-smuggling cult that killed 15 people was charged Wednesday night with two other members in the weekend deaths of their leader and his right-hand man, authorities said.
  4. She testified Mrs. Lundgren taught female cult members to be "carnal, sensual and devilish" and helped plan the Avery slayings.
  5. Last year, for example, a satanic cult was blamed for desecrating an ancient church in the suburb of Pianezza, plundering the tombs of clerics buried there centuries ago and using the bones for some macabre ritual.
  6. The dead, including a U.S. college student, are believed to be the victims of a cult that performed human sacrifices and mutilations to bring magical protection to drug smuggling.
  7. Insisting "I am not a cult leader," Eldridge Broussard Jr. said Tuesday his Ecclesia Athletic Association was running out of money.
  8. Former members who left the cult before the Avery killings have told authorities cult members trained with guns as part of the plot to take over the Kirtland temple.
  9. Former members who left the cult before the Avery killings have told authorities cult members trained with guns as part of the plot to take over the Kirtland temple.
  10. Meanwhile, new details emerged about the cult leaders, who are said to have driven luxury cars and worn expensive clothes bought with drug profits.
  11. Lake County, Ohio, prosecutor Steven C. LaTourette, has said the Averys apparently were killed as a sacrifice that would cleanse cult members' souls and allow them to travel to the wilderness.
  12. "Midnight Caller" stars Gary Cole ("Fatal Vision") as a mouthy, troubled ex-cop who is persuaded by a radio station owner to take on a late-night radio call-in show and becomes a cult hero. The show is set in San Francisco.
  13. The whole production should gain the Gissing cult some more converts.
  14. Evidence of cult activity in the county isn't new; it just wasn't taken very seriously before.
  15. Cervantes, 19, was allegedly the chief aide of Olayo Soto Soto, accused of being the "head sorcerer" of the devil-worshipping cult.
  16. Who was the man behind the cult, and why was he so compelling? Forget critical judgment.
  17. Mrs. Lundgren was among 13 cult members arrested last January in the 1989 shootings of Dennis and Cheryl Avery and their three daughters.
  18. "It's a cult thing.
  19. If you promise but don't deliver you end up like British Rail.' During the mid 1980s, US corporate managers were driven by the cult of excellence.
  20. A onetime secretary-general of the governing party, Tekere, 52, was fired from the politburo and the central committee in October after publicly denouncing corruption and charging that politicians were building a personality cult around Mugabe.
  21. Police theorize that the deaths were a ritual sacrifice to cleanse the cult.
  22. After the death in 1985 of socialist President Forbes Burnham, President Desmond Hoyte launched an investigation of the cult leading to Hill's conviction for manslaughter.
  23. "This is not a personality cult; we have a job to do, and we do it," he says.
  24. "It took the Wolfman from a cult figure to the rank of American flag and apple pie," he said. "It made me legitimate.
  25. North Korean President Kim Il Sung, now 76, rules with a monolithic personality cult that teaches North Koreans to idolize him.
  26. He had told police that members of his "religious cult" planned to kill three city officials because of his dispute over the license.
  27. "Other than a small fringe, for whom he's still a cult figure of sorts, I just don't think (Mishima) has that broad an appeal," Koschmann said.
  28. Absolute power and the cult were his twin props as he pursued nationalist policies, strayed from the Soviet line in foreign dealings and ultimately deprived his oppressed people of even life's basic necessities.
  29. Tim Stoen, former attorney for People's Temple before the cult's mass suicide with 912 deaths over a decade ago, lost the Republican nomination to oppose Democratic incumbent Doug Bosco in California's north coast redwood country.
  30. The newspapers had developed something of a cult of personalities, and his move to de-emphasize columnists prompted a few locally popular writers to leave (one was fired).
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