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

"Perhaps—perhaps it's all because this is the end instead of the beginning of a cultus corrie."

From Told In The Hills by Ryan, Marah Ellis

For I have instituted in my mind, and quite apart from the orthodox cultus, a special devotion to St. Jerome as the Patron of Leisure.

From Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua by Lee, Vernon

Here sculptured fragments of the old Mythra cultus; there mutilated Vestals.

From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by J?kai, M?r