Attentive care; homage; worship.
A system of religious belief and worship.
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.
Pertaining to, or indicating, fanaticism; extravagant in opinions; ultra; unreasonable; excessively enthusiastic, especially on religious subjects; as, fanatic zeal; fanatic notions.
A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion.
