Word: 'cult' • Extended Annotations

cult

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Ancestral Lore

Ancestral Lore of cult

1610s, "worship, homage"
1670s, "a particular form or system of worship"

from Latin cultus "care, labor; cultivation, culture; worship, reverence"

cult noun

an obtrusive, structured system of worship; also the reason for the word occult

a system of religious beliefs and rituals
formal religious veneration: worship
the object of such devotion; the group of people characterized by such devotion
great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work
- i.e. idol worship; idolatry
a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator (such as health cults)
a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious

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Specific examples and quotes of cult

What is religion and what is cult is evidently in the eye of the beholder. Purely by definition, religion is merely the conventional label for a cult. Whereas, it is not the only one. There are many more labels which merely act as fronts or personas for the cult.

A term related to cult is deprogram (v.) "release from cult brainwashing"

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~☉~	lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context
⚜	classic definition
☣	artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense