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
Whatever the impulse was, it showed a side of his nature that only Rachel had gained any knowledge of through those first bright, eager days of their cultus corrie.
From Told In The Hills by Marah Ellis Ryan
But though she wasted no breath in sighs over the retraced cultus corrie, neither did she in the mockery that had tantalized Clara in the beginning.
From Told In The Hills by Marah Ellis Ryan
M. Lajard has given an account of this cultus, which so generally supplanted the mystic worship of the West.
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook
