1917 C. R. PAYNE tr. Pfister's Psych. Method II. xvi. 453 For the evangelical pastor, the aim in question is not a cultistic servitude for the confessional as a means of supernatural grace, but an ethical..purification purpose. 1933 Fortune Aug. 47/3 But the cultist will often go to preposterous lengths. 1934 WEBSTER, Cultism. 1949 R. K. MERTON Social Theory & Struct. (1951) xii. 314 Cultism, informal cliques..these and other techniques may be used for self-aggrandizement. 1955 KEEPNEWS & GRAUER Pict. Hist. Jazz. xix. 243 Bop did have its share of dubious quirks and of inferior musicians and cultism. 1957 P. WORSLEY Trumpet shall Sound x. 214 The Kukuaik [[movement]] on Karkar Island began as an orthodox independent Christian [[body]] and later turned towards Cargo cultism. 1962 Sunday Express 25 Feb. 13/2 The police were sent..after 68 members of the super-[[race]] cult.. The cultists massed on a beach. 1970 Daily Tel. 23 Oct. 4 A deranged group of cultists calling itself the ‘People of the Free Universe’ and threatening death to anyone ‘misusing the natural environment’.[http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50055605/50055605se1?query_type=word&queryword=cultist&first=1&max_to_show=10&sort_type=alpha&result_place=1&search_id=Ll0u-1t0W7o-653&hilite=50055605se1] | 1917 C. R. PAYNE tr. Pfister's Psych. Method II. xvi. 453 For the evangelical pastor, the aim in question is not a cultistic servitude for the confessional as a means of supernatural grace, but an ethical..purification purpose. 1933 Fortune Aug. 47/3 But the cultist will often go to preposterous lengths. 1934 WEBSTER, Cultism. 1949 R. K. MERTON Social Theory & Struct. (1951) xii. 314 Cultism, informal cliques..these and other techniques may be used for self-aggrandizement. 1955 KEEPNEWS & GRAUER Pict. Hist. Jazz. xix. 243 Bop did have its share of dubious quirks and of inferior musicians and cultism. 1957 P. WORSLEY Trumpet shall Sound x. 214 The Kukuaik [[movement]] on Karkar Island began as an orthodox independent Christian [[body]] and later turned towards Cargo cultism. 1962 Sunday Express 25 Feb. 13/2 The police were sent..after 68 members of the super-[[race]] cult.. The cultists massed on a beach. 1970 Daily Tel. 23 Oct. 4 A deranged group of cultists calling itself the ‘People of the Free Universe’ and threatening death to anyone ‘misusing the natural environment’.[http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50055605/50055605se1?query_type=word&queryword=cultist&first=1&max_to_show=10&sort_type=alpha&result_place=1&search_id=Ll0u-1t0W7o-653&hilite=50055605se1] |