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

A Lassalle cultus was instituted, and Becker says that many a German working man believed that he died for them, and that he was yet to come again to save them.

From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John

With the cultus of the Bennu at Heliopolis is connected the story of the phœnix.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max