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
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 John Rae
"Come, Mr. Jack Genesee, suppose we begin our cultus corrie by eating breakfast together; they've been calling me for the past half-hour."
From Told In The Hills by Marah Ellis Ryan
Here sculptured fragments of the old Mythra cultus; there mutilated Vestals.
From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by M?r J?kai
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