‖ dulia
(duːˈlaɪə)
Also douleia.
[med.L., a. Gr. δουλεία slavery, servitude, f. δοῦλος slave, bondsman.]
Servitude, service; spec. the inferior kind of veneration paid by Roman Catholics to saints and angels; opposed to latria.
| [1613 Purchas Pilgrimage, Descr. India (1864) 15 The Iesuites distinction of douleia and latreia.] 1617 Collins Def. Bp. Ely ii. ix. 369 Austen patronizeth not your dulia to Saints. 1623 Cockeram, Dulia, seruice of a bondman, worship to Saints. 1844 Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) II. x. 10 The worship of latria due to God, and that of dulia, the respect which may justly be shewn to his creatures. 1865 Union Rev. III. 404 The hyperdulia and dulia due respectively to our Blessed Lady and the Saints coregnant with Christ. |
Hence (nonce-wds.) ˈdulian a., pertaining to dulia; ˈdulically adv., by way of dulia.
| 1617 Collins Def. Bp. Ely ii. ix. 368 Austen neuer said that we may adore a creature..with a relligious adoration, no not vnder latria, or neuer so dulically. 1635 E. Pagitt Christianogr. ii. vii. (1636) 68 The Romists say that they give to the Saints one kinde of worship, to wit, Dulian. |