cultus
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It opened in 1934 near the Ballard Locks, featuring Alaska stickleback, pipe fish, yellow-banded perch, blennies and cultus cod, according to HistoryLink.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
As Scientologists do battle with the government in Germany, they could point out that religion apparently comes from the Latin religare, or "to bind"; cult comes from the Latin cultus, meaning "worship."
From Time Magazine Archive
For I have instituted in my mind, and quite apart from the orthodox cultus, a special devotion to St. Jerome as the Patron of Leisure.
From Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua by Vernon Lee
Ladies and Gentlemen, To complete my account of the native religion of Peru, I have still to speak of the cultus, the festivals, the religious ethics, and the ideas of a future life.
From Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru by Albert R?ville
The worship of Serapis was patronized by the court with the very object of affording a mixed cultus in which Greek and native might unite.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
