单词 | cultist |
释义 | cultistn.1 Now rare. A writer affecting the elaborate style associated with the Spanish poet Góngora y Argote; = Gongorist n. at Gongorism n. Derivatives. See cultism n.1 ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > affectation in Spanish style > practitioner of cultist1839 Gongorist1839 cultorist1851 Guevarist1883 1839 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 46 718 Francesco de Roxas, a celebrated cultist in style. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 391 The school of the cultists. 1909 Mod. Lang. Rev. 4 551 Fine writing was degraded into the pedantry and chronic bad taste of the cultists. 1962 H. M. Priest Renaissance & Baroque Lyrics 281 The controversy waged between the cultists of Góngora's school and the traditionalists. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cultistn.2 A member or follower of a cult (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > person votary1576 cultist1898 1878 Libr. Table 13 Apr. 203/1 Moses Mendelssohn..is regarded by our ethical-cultists, if such a term be admissible, as a kind of Moses of the nineteenth century.] 1898 Temple June p. vii (advt.) The magazine contains..articles from the most brilliant cultists and exponents of these various systems of philosophy. 1933 Fortune Aug. 47/3 The cultist will often go to preposterous lengths to hear or collect records. 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 New Lit. Hist. 1 136 The Andean Cultists are said to have observed pilgrimage rituals. 1986 A. Sultanik Film xiii. 227 One director who seems to have been singled out by fantasy film cultists is Freddie Francis. 2004 A. Shupe et al. in J. R. Lewis Oxf. Handbk. New Relig. Movements viii. 189 Therapeutic services..to help former cultists recover from the deleterious effects of mind control. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11839n.21898 |
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