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

There was, in addition, another cultus in Greece, namely, that of Hecate with mysterious rays, the patron of sorcerers.

From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.

Sed quia cultus adest, nec nostros mansit in Annos, Rusticitas Priscis illa superstes avis.

From Mundus Foppensis The Fop Display'd by Evelyn, John

The worship of Serapis was patronized by the court with the very object of affording a mixed cultus in which Greek and native might unite.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various