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

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

"So you're one of the party I'm to look after on this cultus corrie?"

From Told In The Hills by Ryan, Marah Ellis

The most renowned seats of the cultus were Aphroditopolis, near Memphis; Edfu and Dendera, in Upper Egypt.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max