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

Error, conditio, votum, cognatis, crimen, cultus disparitas, vis, ordo....

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro

Throughout the whole of the next day Delia was very miserable and depressed; only now did she realise what an obsession this secret cultus had become.

From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram

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