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

"Come, Mr. Jack Genesee, suppose we begin our cultus corrie by eating breakfast together; they've been calling me for the past half-hour."

From Told In The Hills by Ryan, Marah Ellis

It so happens that of all the monstrosities of thought which we find in the whole Greek cultus, based upon the failure to conceive personality, the most monstrous are those which originated with Plato.

From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Lanier, Sidney

The Arian controversy had led to another development, which confirmed by anticipation the cultus to which St. Augustine's doctrine pointed.

From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal