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

With other people, eating is a pleasure, with the Magyar it is a veritable cultus.

From The Strange Story of Rab R?by by J?kai, M?r

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

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.