Lā'tri-ā or La-tri'ā, n.

(Synop., § 130), n. [Lat., Gr. λατρεία, from λατρεύειν, to serve, from λάτρις, λάτρις, servant, worshiper.] The highest kind of worship, or that paid to God;—distinguished by the Roman Catholics from dulia, or the inferior worship paid to saints.