Noun
a member of a religious cult
a member of an unorthodox cult who generally lives outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader
Source: WordNetI don't think there is any harm in it, but I tell you, there are demons and there are evil people in the world, and you post a picture like that and some cultist gets hold of it or a coven and they begin muttering curses against an unborn child. [...] You never know what somebody's going to do. Pat Robertson
For that reason in some cases cult leader's pictures were burned or there were highly confrontational interactions between deprogrammers and cultist. Source: Internet
Joseph Szimhart, a deprogrammer and self-described former cult member, says "until 1992, in a low percentage of my cases, included situations in which families elected to confine and sometimes abduct a 'cultist' to a deprogramming." Source: Internet
I. Q. Hunter states that "it's much easier to be a cultist now, but it is also rather more inconsequential." Source: Internet
“The cultist will be taken to Abuja and those arrested will give us the names of cultists in Ebonyi and we will come after them,” he assured. Source: Internet
Players control Eshe, a wanderer at the centre of a conflict between the Eschaton (zealous tentacled cultist) and the Valkyrie (a sci-fi-inspired military). Source: Internet