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

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

The Arian controversy had led to another development, which confirmed by anticipation the cultus to which St. Augustine's doctrine pointed.

From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal

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