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

For I have instituted in my mind, and quite apart from the orthodox cultus, a special devotion to St. Jerome as the Patron of Leisure.

From Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua by Lee, Vernon

A snow three days old covered the ground, in which Kalitan's trail was easily followed; and then Rachel had been over the same route before, starting light-hearted and eager, on that cultus corrie.

From Told In The Hills by Ryan, Marah Ellis

Throughout the whole of the next day Delia was very miserable and depressed; only now did she realise what an obsession this secret cultus had become.

From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram