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

"Perhaps—perhaps it's all because this is the end instead of the beginning of a cultus corrie."

From Told In The Hills by Ryan, Marah Ellis

We see evidences of this growth of the cultus of the Blessed Virgin in the erection and elaborate ornamentation of Lady Chapels throughout Christendom.

From Ecclesiastical Curiosities by Various

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 Westbrook, Richard B.