Cult

(noun.) a system of religious beliefs and rituals; 'devoted to the cultus of the Blessed Virgin'.

(noun.) a religion or sect that is generally considered to be unorthodox, extremist, or false; 'it was a satanic cult'.

(noun.) followers of an unorthodox, extremist, or false religion or sect who often live outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader.

(noun.) followers of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices.

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• One suspects at times that our national cult of optimism is no real feeling that the world is good, but a fear that pessimism will produce panics. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In the devotional literature of his cult he is spoken of as the saviour and leader of souls, leading souls to the light and receiving them again. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The weakened virus increased in strength when cult ivated in a series of rabbits. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• He realised that there were great mysteries to be unsealed, sensual, mindless, dreadful mysteries, far beyond the phallic cult. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• It was reorganized as a distinctive cult by Chang Daoling in the days of the Han dynasty. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Writing and reading had been simplified down to a point when it was no longer possible to make a cult and mystery of them. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The cult ure of the democratic man is above all characterized by adapt ability. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Do you wish me with my black, short hair to pose as a yellow-haired priest of this infernal cult? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• No doubt there were great differences between temple and temple and cult and cult in the spirit and quality of the priesthood. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A cult of him as of something mystically heroic grew up after his death. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But in the dissensions of the various cults comes the opportunity of the palace. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It would be interesting to trace out the forms it has taken, the abortive cults it has tried and abandoned. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Opposition may dissolve, antagonistic cults flatten out to a common culture, almost imperceptibly. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Religious cults and priesthoods are sectarian by nature; they will convert, they will overcome, but they will never coalesce. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• No doubt he realized the weakness and disunion of his empire due to these conflicting cults, and had some conception of unification in his mind. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The ancient mysteries of Demeter and Orpheus, the mysteries of the Mediterranean race, revived and made a sort of _theocrasia_ with these new cults. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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