See also:

• ADORATION (Lat. ad, to, and os, mouth; i.e. " carrying to one's mouth ")

ADORATION (See also:

• LAT

Lat. ad, to, and os, mouth; i.e. " carrying to one's mouth ")  , primarily an See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of See also:

• HOMAGE (from homo, through the Low Lat. hominaticum, which occurs in a document of 1035)

homage or See also:

• WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship, which, among the See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans, was performed by raising the See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand to the mouth, kissing it and then waving it in the direction of the adored See also:

• OBJECT

object . The devotee had his See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head covered, and after the act turned himself See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round from See also:

• LEFT

left to right . Sometimes he kissed the feet or knees of the images of the gods themselves, and See also:

• SATURN
• SATURN [SATURNUS]

Saturn and See also:

• HERCULES
• HERCULES (0. Lat. Hercoles, Hercles)

Hercules were adored with the head See also:

• BARE

bare . By a natural transition the homage, at first paid to divine beings alone, came to be paid to monarchs . Thus the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek and See also:

• ROMAN

Roman emperors were adored by bowing or kneeling, laying hold of the imperial robe, and presently withdrawing the hand and pressing it to the lips, or by putting the royal robe itself to the lips . In Eastern countries See also:

• ADORATION (Lat. ad, to, and os, mouth; i.e. " carrying to one's mouth ")

adoration has ever been performed in an attitude still more lowly . The See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian method, introduced by See also:

• CYRUS
• CYRUS (Gr. KDpos; Pers. Kuru-sh; Babyl. Kurash; Hebr. Koresh)

Cyrus, was to See also:

• BEND

bend the See also:

• KNEE (O. E. cneow, a word common to Indo-European languages, cf. Ger. Knie, Fr. genou, Span. hinojo, Lat. genu, Gr. ybvv, Sansk. janu)

knee and fall on the See also:

• FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face at the See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince's feet, striking the See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth with the forehead and kissing the ground . This striking of the earth with the forehead, usually a fixed number of times, is the See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of adoration usually paid to Eastern potentates to-See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day . The See also:

• JEWS
• JEWS (Heb. Y8hudi, man of Judah; Gr. 'Iovbaiot; Lat. Judaei)

Jews kissed in homage . Thus in 1 See also:

• KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

Kings xix . 18, See also:

• GOD

God is made to say, " Yet I have left me seven thousand in See also:

• ISRAEL (Hebrew for " God strives " or " rules "; see Gen. xxxii. 28; and the allusion in Hosea xii. 4)

Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto See also:

• BAAL

Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him." And in See also:

• PSALMS, BOOK
• PSALMS, BOOK OF, or PSALTER

Psalms ii . 12, " See also:

• KISS

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way." (See also See also:

• HOSEA

Hosea xiii .

2.) In See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England the ceremony of kissing the See also:

• SOVEREIGN

sovereign's hand, and some other acts which are performed kneeling, may be described as forms of adoration . Adoration is applied in the Roman See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church to the ceremony of kissing the See also:

• POPE (Gr. irarraas, post-classical Lat. papa, father)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1763-1835)
• POPE, JANE (1742-1818)
• POPE, JOHN (1822-1892)
• POPE, SIR THOMAS (c. 1507-1559)

pope's See also:

• FOOT

foot, a See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom which is said to have been introduced by the popes following the example of the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

• DIOCLETIAN (GAIUs AURELIUS VALERIUS DIOCLETIANUS) (A.D. 245–313)
• DIOCLETIAN, EDICT OF (De Pretiis rerum venalium)

Diocletian . The toe of the famous statue of the apostle in St See also:

• PETER
• PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
• PETER (PEDRO)
• PETER, EPISTLES OF
• PETER, ST

Peter's, See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome, shows marked See also:

• WEAR

wear caused by the kisses of pilgrims . In the Roman Church a distinction is made between Latria, a worship due to God alone, and Dulia or Hyperdulia, the adoration paid to the Virgin, See also:

• SAINTS, BATTLE OF THE

saints, martyrs, crucifixes, &c .