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‖ latria Theol.|ləˈtraɪə|
Also 7 latreia.
[late L. latrīa, a. Gr. λατρεία service, service to God, divine worship, f. λατρεύ-ειν to serve, serve with prayer.]
In Roman Catholic language: The supreme worship which is due to God alone (distinguished from dulia and hyperdulia).
[1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 22952 Off this place, ffolkes alle, ‘Latrya’ they me calle. Myne offyce is moste in wakynge, To kepe the gate aboute the kynge.] 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 44 b, This latria is holy and due reuerence to god in prayers, vowes, tythes, othes and in the seruice of god. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. i. iii. (1636) 131 It is the common opinion in Spaine and Italy that Latria, or divine honor, is due to the Crosse. 1645― Heresiogr. (ed. 2) 147 The Papists make two Degrees of Religious worship; the highest they call Latreia. 1845Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. II. x. 111 The worship of latria due to God only, and that of dulia, the respect which may justly be shewn to his creatures. 1859I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 225 What now becomes of the distinction between the dulia, and the hyper-dulia, and the latria?
Hence † latrial, † latrian adjs. rare, of the nature of latria.
1550Bale Apol. 141 They can make false Goddes, and gyve to them latryall honoure. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. ii. vii. (1636) 68 The Romists say that they give to the Saints one kinde of worship, to wit, Dulian, and to God another and a greater, Latrian. |