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1. A kind of affected elegance of style which prevailed in Spanish [[literature]] in the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th c.; also called Góngorism after the poet Góngora. So {sm}cultist, a writer affecting cultism.
1839 Blackw. Mag. XLVI. 718 Francesco de Roxas, a celebrated cultist in style. 1870 LOWELL Study Wind. 391 The school of the cultists. 1887 MOREL-FATIO in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 360 The cultism of Góngora, the artifice of which lies solely in the choice and arrangement of words.
2. The [[spirit]], system, or practice of a cult or a cultic activity. So {sm}cultist, a person practising cultism; cul{sm}tistic a.
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]
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1. A kind of affected elegance of style which prevailed in Spanish [[literature]] in the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th c.; also called Góngorism after the poet Góngora. So {sm}cultist, a writer affecting cultism.
1839 Blackw. Mag. XLVI. 718 Francesco de Roxas, a celebrated cultist in style. 1870 LOWELL Study Wind. 391 The school of the cultists. 1887 MOREL-FATIO in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 360 The cultism of Góngora, the artifice of which lies solely in the choice and arrangement of words.
2. The [[spirit]], system, or practice of a cult or a cultic activity. So {sm}cultist, a person practising cultism; cul{sm}tistic a.
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]
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