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Webster 1913 Edition
Cult
1.
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. 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.