cultus

When someone is proclaimed a saint by the pope — which can happen only after death — public devotion to the saint, called a “cultus,” is authorized for Catholics throughout the world.

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.

Hosea stigmatizes the whole cultus as pure heathenism—Canaanite baal-worship adopted by apostate Israel.

I suppose he had secured his outfit as a ‘cultus potlatch’ from persons he had met.

M. Lajard has given an account of this cultus, which so generally supplanted the mystic worship of the West.