Cult (k?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. thecult 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.
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