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  • The saints are to be venerated, only in a suitable manner (opportuna veneratio).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • They admit that pictures of saints should be kept as ornaments in churches and as well as relics and the saints themselves should receive a certain proper veneration (opportuna veneratio); but they declare that God only can receive adoration (meaning adoratio, proskynesis); pictures are in themselves indifferent, have no necessary connexion with the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • Proskynesis (which oddly enough means etymologically the same thing as adoratio = = ad + os, kynein, to kiss) corresponds in Christian use to the Latin veneratio; douleia would generally be translated cultus.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • Hadriano papa Constantino Irenes F.imp. impii iconomachi reiiciuntur sacrarum imaginum veneratio confirmatur.

    The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

  • Ea (veneratio) potest esse etiam sine cultu, saith Scaliger, De

    The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

  • Ethiopians of old; the properest man of person the country could afford, was elected their sovereign lord; Gratior est pulchro veniens e corpore virtus, [4825] and so have many other nations thought and done, as [4826] Curtius observes: Ingens enim in corporis majestate veneratio est, for there is a majestical presence in such men; and so far was beauty adored amongst them, that no man was thought fit to reign, that was not in all parts complete and supereminent.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Martii Sandtorum Librorum afleritur veneratio; die ao.

    Breviarium ecclesiæ Rotomagensis Rouen diocese 1777

  • Ego neglccta pofte - riori hac demonftrandi via, illo - rum, qui Clariflimi Geomecrae authoritate ducuntur & veneratio - ne, caflra fecjuor; in cjuorum partes me vel unica hxc trahic ra - tio, cjuodillis, qui horum Ele - mencorum nocitia jam cjuodam - modo func imbuti, ad fublimio - ra Veterum Mathematicorum e - volvenda opera faciliorem longe fuppeditare mihi manuductionem vidcantur&aditum.

    Euclidis Elementorum sex libri priores: magnam partem novis demonstrationibus adornati 1692

  • (/i) Poteft alia via experirt, an poffk Moribundi ftomachus confecratam particulam rcti - ocre; nec unquam permittendum eft, ut non confecrata particula experimentum fiar, tum ob periculum, quod occurrerc fortaffe poffet idololatriae \ tum ctiam nc debita crga Sacram Eucnariftiam veneratio hac via minuatur»

    Adm. rev. p. F. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica ... 1782

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