Crossword clues for cult
cult
- Fanatic following
- Fanatic followers
- Extremely devoted group
- Dada, e.g
- ___ classic (movie such as "The Rocky Horror Picture Show")
- Zealous following
- Zealous bunch
- Word with "film" or "following"
- Word before "classic" or "following"
- Warned of "Fire Woman"
- Unorthodox religion or sect
- Unorthodox religion
- The Raelians, e.g
- System of worship
- Snake worshippers, e.g
- Single-minded religious group
- Rock's Blue Oyster ___
- Manson Family, e.g
- Like many midnight movies
- Kool-Aid drinkers?
- Kind of hero or film
- Kind of film or hero
- Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy band
- Highly devoted followers
- Heaven's Gate, e.g
- Having a small but rabid fan base
- Group of zealots
- Group of believers
- Fervent following
- Fans of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," some say
- Fanatical followers
- Fanatic sect
- Faction on the fringe
- Extremist religious sect
- Extremist religious group
- Extremely popular to a small fan base
- Devilism, e.g
- Clique of believers
- Branch Davidian sect, for one
- Bought some "Sanctuary"?
- Bogart fans, e.g
- Blue Oyster ____
- Blue Öyster ___ (heavy-metal band)
- Blue Öyster ___ (heavy metal band)
- Blue Oyster ___
- Bevy of bug-eyed believers
- Bevy of believers
- Believers' group
- "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" fans, e.g
- "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" devotees, e.g
- ___ following (small but devoted group of fans)
- ___ following
- __ film
- Kind of following
- Branch Davidians, e.g.
- Heaven's Gate, e.g.
- Kind of film or following
- Order of the Solar Temple, e.g.
- Zealot's group
- Extremist sect
- Following group
- Kind of movie
- ___ of personality
- Adherents of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices
- An interest followed with exaggerated zeal
- A system of religious beliefs and rituals
- Movie following, maybe
- Satanists, e.g.
- Devoted group
- Close-knit religious group
- Unorthodox sect
- Hero-worshipers
- Dada, e.g.
- James Dean fans, e.g.
- Devilism is one
- Bogart fans, e.g.
- Dada, for one
- Group of devotees
- Ritual group
- Devilism, e.g.
- Ism
- Corbyn's first (and last) description of his political movement?
- Extremist religion
- Order of the Solar Temple, e.g
- Strange religious group
- Religious sect
- Splinter group
- Religious offshoot
- Religious group
- Exclusive group
- Religious splinter group
- Like-minded group
- Secret group
- Fringe group
- Satanists, e.g
- Type of film or following
- Obsessed group
- Zealous group
- Zealots' group
- Devoted following
- Type of following
- The Raelians, for one
- Kind of worship
- Group that's more than devoted
- Fanatical following
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cult \Cult\ (k[u^]lt) n. [F. culte, L. cultus care, culture, fr. colere to cultivate. Cf. Cultus.]
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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.
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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. 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.
The group of individuals who adhere to a cult (senses 2 or 3).
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "worship," also "a particular form of worship," from French culte (17c.), from Latin cultus "care, labor; cultivation, culture; worship, reverence," originally "tended, cultivated," past participle of colere "to till" (see colony). Rare after 17c.; revived mid-19c. with reference to ancient or primitive rituals. Meaning "a devotion to a person or thing" is from 1829.\n\nCult. An organized group of people, religious or not, with whom you disagree. [Rawson]
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, or relating to a cult. 2 Enjoyed by a small, loyal group. n. 1 (lb en offensive derogatory) A group of people with a religious, philosophical or cultural identity sometimes viewed as a sect, often existing on the margins of society or exploitative towards its members. 2 devotion to a saint. 3 (lb en informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
WordNet
n. adherents of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices
an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season" [syn: fad, craze, furor, furore, rage]
a system of religious beliefs and rituals; "devoted to the cultus of the Blessed Virgin" [syn: cultus, religious cult]
Wikipedia
Cult is literally the "care" (Latin cultus) owed to God or gods and to temples, shrines, or churches. Cult is embodied in ritual and ceremony. Its present or former presence is made concrete in temples, shrines and churches, and cult images, including cult images and votive offerings at votive sites.
In the specific context of the Greek hero cult, Carla Antonaccio wrote,
A cult is a religious or social group with socially deviant or novel beliefs and practices.
Cult or cults may also refer to:
Cult is the title of the third full-length LP by the band Apocalyptica released in 2000 with a special-edition released in 2001 containing an extra disc, mixed and mastered at Finnvox. Although seen as the third album, it is actually Apocalyptica's first album as Cult contains majority original material as opposed to their previous releases which were compilations. Here, Apocalyptica also started using distortion effects much more boldly and frequently. There are some versions of the first release with "Path Vol. 2" as the first track and "Path" as the fourteenth. This is the last Apocalyptica album to feature Max Lilja on cello. The song "Hope Vol.2" has a music video which features scenes from the film Vidocq.
Cult (formerly CNI - Cult Network Italia) is an Italian entertainment TV channel that broadcasts on channel 319 in the Sky Italia satellite television network.
Following its launch in 1998 Cult Network Italia was twice named Best Thematic Cultural Arts Channel in Europe at the Annual European Satellite Awards.
Cult is an American television series created by Rockne S. O'Bannon that ran on The CW from February 19 to July 12, 2013 and originally aired on Tuesdays at 9:00 pm Eastern/8:00 pm Central. The series centers on a journalist blogger and a production assistant, who investigate a series of mysterious disappearances that are linked to a popular television series named Cult.
On February 27, 2013, The CW announced that starting March 8 Cult would air on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern/8:00 pm Central. On April 10, 2013, Cult was canceled and removed from the schedule. The CW began airing the six remaining episodes on June 28, 2013.
is a 2013 Japanese horror found footage film written and directed by Kôji Shiraishi about the supernatural malevolent forces haunting the Kaneda family. It was released in Japan on July 20, 2013.
Cult is the sixth studio album by American rock band Bayside released on February 18, 2014 on Hopeless Records in North America. In 2015, it was rereleased with a white cover and 4 bonus tracks.
Cult: Leadership & Business Strategy: Ruthlessly Redefined is a management book written by management guru Arindam Chaudhuri and strategy professor A. Sandeep. The book was launched by Guy Kawasaki, former Chief Evangelist at Apple Inc. and current member, Board of Trustees at the Wikimedia Foundation, in December 2011 at an event in London attended by political and business leaders, and reached the top 10 business bestsellers list in India.
The book deals with lessons for CEOs in running transnational corporations. The book is divided into two parts. The first part addresses leadership issues that CEOs face while running global corporations. The second part addresses business strategy issues that CEOs of very large corporations have to face.
Guy Kawasaki commented on the book, “I have read the book and Steve Jobs would love this book, he truly would. This book is in the same quality of Malcolm Gladwell, Geoffrey Moore & Clayton Christensen." Marshall Goldsmith said Cult provides "a view on vision you won’t find anywhere."
Usage examples of "cult".
I had a feeling that I had passed through this abusive cult for a reason.
From her own experience, she has become aware that there are many women like herself who leave the Family and fall into similarly controlling and abusive situations, which tend to perpetuate the experiences that they had while in the cult.
As he had already performed the pilgrimage to Rome, he knew every person in Ancona devoted to the cult of Saint-Francis, and was acquainted with the superiors of all the rich convents.
At that period I still went about and was able to continue performing in person my duties as high pontiff and as Arval Brother, and to celebrate myself the ancient rites of this Roman religion which, in the end, I prefer to most of the foreign cults.
The cult of Mithra, less widespread then than it has become since our expedition in Parthia, won me over temporarily by the rigors of its stark asceticism, which drew taut the bowstring of the will, and by its obsession with death, blood, and iron, which elevated the routine harshness of our military lives to the level of a symbol of universal struggle.
Instead they were busy surrounding with a classically retrograde cult of personality a certain mathematics professor, neither charismatic nor even personable, named Weed Atman, who had ambled into celebrity.
Faith told investigators that Ayers and his officers had discovered a member of a New York Satanic cult was in town, planning another terrorist attack.
Toward midnight when Miss Azimuth was finished, the Cult of Loving Kindness broke its camp.
Later, a daughter library, the Serapeion, housed in the temple of Serapis, a new Graeco-Egyptian cult, which may have been based on Hades, the Greek god of the dead, held another 40,000 scrolls.
Whereas, he thinks, Protestantism has died, or is dying, as a religion, it still exists as a mood, as bibliolatry, as a national and political cult, as a scientific and technical motive-power, and, last but not least, as the ethos and pathos of the Germanic peoples.
And yet, despite all thisthe binational bureaucratic cult, the old-style corporatism that survived the passage from war to peace, the mystique of nonaccountability symbolized by the sovereign, the stunted aspects of the new imperial democracyMacArthur was quite accurate when he spoke of a society that had undergone significant change.
Queron as well as Joram and Evaine, under circumstances that had nothing to do with the cult of Saint Camber now being so rigorously suppressed in the outside world.
Too, he preaches celibacy, so that he has become an icon of the cessant cults.
It came to me that I might find Jolly, and that I might take him back to Kavasphir only to find that our home, Temple Huacho, had been lost: fallen to ruins at the hands of some cessant cult, or washed away by the silver, and all that we loved in this world gone.
The fireball Chicano lawyer was on his way to becoming a half-successful writer, a cult figure of sorts -- then a fugitive, a freak, and finally either a permanently missing person or an undiscovered corpse.