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

We have now presented a view of this interesting cultus extending over the principal nations of the Eastern and Western worlds, and reaching from the remotest ages to modern times.

From Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship by Anonymous

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

"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