cult

• n. 祭儀（尤其指宗教上的）；禮拜；狂熱信徒
• adj. 狂熱崇拜的

來自PIE*kwel,彎，轉，耕作，詞源同cycle,colony.原指農耕文明靠天吃飯，因而對神靈的無 比虔誠。

cult

cult: [17] The Indo-European base *quel-,* quoldenoted primarily ‘move around, turn’ (it is the source of English cycle and wheel). By metaphorical extension it came to signify ‘be busy’, which later branched out in two semantic directions: ‘inhabiting a place’ and ‘making a wild place suitable for crops’. These are both channelled into Latin colere, which meant ‘inhabit’, ‘cultivate’, and also ‘worship’.

The notion of ‘inhabiting’ is reflected in its descendant colony, but its past participial stem cult- has bequeathed us other aspects of its meaning. ‘Worship’ is represented by cult, acquired via French culte or directly from Latin cultus. ‘Developing the land’ appears in cultivate [17], from the medieval Latin derivative cultivāre, and by metaphorical extension in culture [15], from French culture, which originally meant ‘piece of tilled land’.
=> colony, cultivate, culture, cycle, wheel

cult (n.)

1610s, "worship," also "a particular form of worship," from French culte (17c.), from Latin cultus "care, labor; cultivation, culture; worship, reverence," originally "tended, cultivated," past participle of colere "to till" (see colony). Rare after 17c.; revived mid-19c. with reference to ancient or primitive rituals. Meaning "a devotion to a person or thing" is from 1829.

Cult. An organized group of people, religious or not, with whom you disagree. [Rawson]

1. The teenager may have been abducted by a religious cult.

這個少年可能被一個異教組織綁架了。

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2. Ludlam was responsible for making Ridiculous Theatre something of a cult.

荒誕派戲劇的風靡要歸功於勒德拉姆。

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3. Since her death, she has become a cult figure.

她死後成了部分人狂熱崇拜的偶像。

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4. Anybody interested in pop culture at all should buy "Pure Cult".

任何對流行文化有一點興趣的人都應該買《完全崇拜》這張專輯。

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5. The cult of Isis was carried from Egypt into Greece and Rome.

對伊希斯的膜拜從埃及傳到了希臘和羅馬。

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