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

But rarely has thought freed itself from the notion of duplicity, triplicity, and grounded its faith in the Idea of the One Personal Spirit, as a pure theism, and planted therein a faith and cultus.

From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson

Religio Catholica Apostolica Romana libere in Gallia exercebitur: cultus publicus erit, habita tamen ratione ordinationum quoad politiam.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, February, 1865 by Various

The worship of Serapis was patronized by the court with the very object of affording a mixed cultus in which Greek and native might unite.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various