Read full poem →A crockodile eats a native, who in revenge beats it insensible
with a banana, establishing meanwhile a re- ligious cult based on
consubstantial intangibility.
Dictionary Entry
A group or sect of people with a deviant religious, philosophical or cultural identity, often existing on the margins of society or exploitative towards its members.
In a Sentence
“Oh my gosh, I'm in a repressive cult! How can I leave it?”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “cult”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →We are destined to bow to their influence;
There's a whole cult of music in Dixie alone,
And that is America put into tone."
Read full poem →limited edition, and there the thing has remained. Laforgue can never
become a popular cult because tyros can not imitate him.
Read full poem →still an idea which gor embedded in my head some years ago: I mean that
Klingsor is a poet. As for the Elskamp phase and cult, I do not make
much of it. Jean de Bosschère has written a book upon Elskamp, and he
Read full poem →Then said I : That is wonderful which thou sayest, and very
difl&cult to be understood by foolish men. But I neverthe-
less perceive that it appertains well enough to the discourse