Meanings
- not comparablelifestyleOf or pertaining to latria, the highest form of worship.
We have already highlighted the primacy of the first of these, the latreutical end of this et-et, that is, of the adoration of God.
2020, Truth Is a Synthesis: Catholic Dogmatic Theology, translation of original by Mauro Gagliardi, page 6561 more example
[I]n this ſacred Supper there is a ſacrifice (in that ſenſe vvherein the Fathers ſpoke) none of vs euer doubted: but that is then, either Latreuticall (as [Robert] Bellarmine diſtinguiſhes it not ill) or Euchariſticall: […]
1614, Jos[eph] Hall, “No Peace with Rome. […]. Section 19. Concerning the Sacrifice of the Masse..”, in A Recollection of Such Treatises as Haue Bene heretofore Seuerally Published and are Nowe Reuised, Corrected, Augmented. […], London: […] [Humfrey Lownes] for Arthur Iohnson, Samuel Macham and Laurence Lisle, published 1615, →OCLC, page 878Synonyms: latreutic
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOf or pertaining to latria, the highest form of worship.
Origin
- Ancient Greekλατρευτικός
- Englishlatreutical
From Ancient Greek λατρευτικός (latreutikós), from λατρεύω (latreúō, “to serve, to worship”), + -al. Compare -latry.
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