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

A Lassalle cultus was instituted, and Becker says that many a German working man believed that he died for them, and that he was yet to come again to save them.

From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John

There was, in addition, another cultus in Greece, namely, that of Hecate with mysterious rays, the patron of sorcerers.

From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.

A snow three days old covered the ground, in which Kalitan's trail was easily followed; and then Rachel had been over the same route before, starting light-hearted and eager, on that cultus corrie.

From Told In The Hills by Ryan, Marah Ellis