latreutical
latreutical adjective: acting as a hired servant; serving; ministering; assisting.
Adjective
latreutical (not comparable)
- Acting as a hired servant; serving; ministering; assisting.
- Of or pertaining to latria, the highest form of worship.
- [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...
- 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 656
- Synonyms:
- latreutic
Synonyms of latreutical
Origin of latreutical
From Ancient Greek λατρευτικός (latreutikós), from λατρεύω (latreúō, “to serve, to worship”), + -al. Compare -latry.
Questions about latreutical
- What does latreutical mean?
- Latreutical means acting as a hired servant; serving; ministering; assisting.
- What part of speech is latreutical?
- Latreutical is an adjective.
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