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

Something in the whole affair—the confidence and personal interest, and all—had taken her memory back to the days of that cultus corrie, when another man had shared with her scenes somewhat similar to this.

From Told In The Hills by Ryan, Marah Ellis

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

It is impossible to dispute the fact, and no explanation can be accepted for one part of the cultus which fails to explain the other.

From Ophiolatreia An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World by Anonymous