in Theology, a religious worship due only to God. See ADORATION.

The Romanists say, "They honour God with the worship of latria, and the saints with the worship of dulia." But the terms, however distinct, are usually confounded.

The worship of latria, besides its inner characters, has its external marks to distinguish it; the principal whereof is sacrifice, which cannot be offered to any other but God himself, as being a solemn acknowledgment or recognition of the sovereignty of God, and our dependence on him.

Mr. Daille seems to own, that some of the fathers of the fourth century allowed the distinction between latria and dulia.