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

Something in the whole affair—the confidence and personal interest, and all—had taken her memory back to the days of that cultus corrie, when another man had shared with her scenes somewhat similar to this.

From Told In The Hills by Ryan, Marah Ellis

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.

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.