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 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

"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

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