CULT

noun Usage: often attributive see: wheel Date: 1617 formal religious veneration ; worship , a system of religious beliefs and ritual, a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious, a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator , 5. great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book), the object of such devotion, a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion, ~ic adjective ~ish adjective ~ishly adverb ~ishness noun ~ism noun ~ist noun ~like adjective