culottism (kulotizm)

[As culott -ic +-ism.] The principles or influence of the more respect able cla es of society. See sansculottism. He who in these epochs of our Europe founds on garni tures, formulas, culottisms of what sort soever, is founding on old cloth and sheepskin, and cannot endure. cultivate tion for a particular person or thing: as, the Shaksperian cult. Every man is convinced of the reality of a better self, and of the cult or homage which is due to it. Shaftesbury , Advice to an Author, iii. § 1. 2. A system of religious belief and worship; especially, the rites and ceremonies employed in worship. Also cultus. Cult is a term which, as we value exactne , we can ill do without, seeing how completely religion has lost its original signification. F. Hall , Mod. Eng., p. 172. 3. A subject of devoted attention or study; that in which one is earnestly or absorbingly interested. cultch (kulch), n. [Cf. culch.] The materials used to form a spawning-bed for oysters; also, the spawn of the oyster.